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Shiote flora

• Type locality: Fukushima prefecture
• early Miocene
• Strata: Shiote Formation

• Climate: Warm temperate, Subtropical

• [ Reported fossils ]
• Acer iwaii
• Acer subpictum
• Buxus japonica
• Carpinus ellipticibracteata
• Carpinus jobanensis
• Carpinus protocordatus
• Carya sp., Cephalotaxus sp.
• Cinnamomum cf. scheutzeri
• Cornus sp.
• Euonymus cf. palaeosieboldianus
• Fagus jobanensis
• Fothergilla ryozennensis
• Ilex geniculata
• Katopanax acelifolium
• Lindera umbellatum
• Liquidambar formosana
• Metasequoia japonica
• Quercus hanagaii
• Rhus miosuccedania
• Smilax trinervis
• Sorbus sp.
• Ulmus longifolia
• Zelkova elongata
• Zelkova ungeri

• Yanagisawa et al. (1996) Geology of the Somanakamura District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 114p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)