Where: Japan (31.7° N, 130.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.0° N, 129.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Shiake Formation, Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Shigehira flora/Shiake Formation is Piacenzian, c. 3.0 Ma according to Momohara 2016.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collection methods: Repository: National Science Museum, Tokyo
Primary reference: I. Fujiyama and Y. Iwao. 1975. Late Cenozoic insect faunas in the northwestern region of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum of Tokyo 8:33-50 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 188974: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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