Kitayama Locality: Miocene - Pliocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pinopsida - Pinales - Pinaceae
Keteleeria ezoana Tanai 1961
4 specimens
Tanai
Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
? Phragmites sp. Adanson 1763
1 specimen
Bambusites sp. Ettingshausen 1886
6 specimens
Angiospermae - Moraceae
2 specimens
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Zelkova ungeri Kovats 1865
1 specimen
Kovats
Angiospermae - Fagales - Fagaceae
2 specimens
K. Suzuki
1 specimen
Tanai et Onoe
Angiospermae - Fagales - Betulaceae
3 specimens
Huzioka
26 specimens
Steud.
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Nagano
Coordinates: 36.0° North, 138.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.7° North, 135.7° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene - Pliocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5-6 - Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary
Key time interval: Miocene - Pliocene
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 2.58 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nagaiwa
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: The plant bearing rocks also belong to the lower part of the Bodaira tuff.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:22788
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:J. Cassara Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-26 06:02:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-26 06:02:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6513. K. Ozaki. 1991. Late Miocene and Pliocene Floras in Central Honshu, Japan. Bulletin of Kanagawa Prefectural Museam Natural Science Special Issue 1-244 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/H. Lindon]