Hirabara: Eocene, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Fagales - Myricaceae
Angiospermae - Fagales - Juglandaceae
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
unclassified
Angiospermae - Moraceae
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
Angiospermae - Saxifragales - Hamamelidaceae
Angiospermae - Boraginales - Boraginaceae
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Yamaguchi County:Onoda City
Coordinates: 34.0° North, 131.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.6° North, 126.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2-3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Eocene
Age range of interval: 56 - 33.9 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Ube Formation:Okinoyama
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,original carbon
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Collection size:13 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:24477
Authorizer:S. Wing Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:H. Lindon Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-08-08 08:17:07 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-08 08:17:07
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
6891. K. Huzioka and E. Takahasi. 1970. The Eocene flora of the Ube coal-field, southwest Honshu, Japan. Journal of the Mining College, Akita University, Series A: Mining Geology 4(5):1-88 [S. Wing/H. Lindon/J. Cassara]