Rice field near Cape Seki: Aquitanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Hemiptera - Urostylididae
Souma et al. 2024 1 specimen
SGC0001 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Hemiptera - Cicadidae
1 specimen
SGC0002
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 138.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° North, 135.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Aquitanian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
Key time interval: Aquitanian
Age range of interval: 23.04 - 20.45 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Masaragawa
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Lower part of the Masaragawa Formation. An age of 24.1±2.4 Ma (Early Miocene) is obtained by the fission track of dacitic welded tuff of lower part of the Masaragawa Formation in Seki (Ganzawa, 1982).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,diatomaceous lithified siltstone
Lithology description: Laminated diatomaceous siltstone
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Sado Geopark Center
Metadata
Database number:235318
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2024-06-27 14:48:57 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2024-06-27 14:48:57
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

88704. Y. Takahashi, H. Aiba, and M. Aida. 2024. A cicadid hind wing fossil (Hemiptera, Cicadidae) from the Lower Miocene Masaragawa Formation, Seki, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan 130:199-203 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

90882 J. Souma, Y. Takahashi, H. Aiba and M. Aida. 2024. Discovery of the fossil true bug species Urochela (Urochela) cf. melaina Zhang, 1989 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Urostylididae) from Japan, suggesting a wide distribution of the U. (U.) quadrinotata (Reuter, 1881) species group in East Asia in the past. Zootaxa 5507:589-596 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]