Yagii Flora Locality K: Langhian - Messinian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Coniferales - Cupressaceae
Metasequoia occidentalis Chaney 1951
26 specimens
Angiospermae - Laurales - Lauraceae
? Persea sp. Gaertner 1805
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Poales - Poaceae
Bambusites sp. Ettingshausen 1886
4 specimens
Angiospermae - Malpighiales - Salicaceae
Salix misaotatewakii
6 specimens
Angiospermae - Fabales - Fabaceae
Wisteria fallax
1 specimen
Angiospermae - Sapindales - Sapindaceae
Acer protomiyabei Endo 1950
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hirakata
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 139.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.0° North, 137.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene - Late/Upper Miocene
*International age/stage:Longhian - Messinian
Key time interval:Langhian - Messinian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yagii
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: The Yagii Formation is probably correlated with the Upper Itahana Formation, because they have common features in similar lithology and in lacking marine molluscan fossils.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:22750
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:H. Lindon
Modifier:J. Cassara Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-24 17:40:17 Last modified:2004-02-03 19:42:50
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-24 17:40:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]