[ Top ] [ Japanese fossil flora ] [ Japanese ]

Takamine flora

A member of Mitoku-type flora.

• Type locality: Yamagata prefecture
• late Miocene
• Strata: Takamine Formation, Lower Tenoko Formation

• Climate:
• Sedimentary facies: Wet places
• Sedimentary facies: Low lands near a sedimental basin

• [ Index fossils ]
• Betula miomaximowicziana
• Betula protoermanii
• Fagus palaeocrenata
• Ulmus protojaponica
• Ulmus protolaciniata

• [ Reported fossils ]
• Acer nordenskioeldi
• Alnus miojaponica
• Berchemia miofloribunda
• Camellia protojaponica
• Carpinus heigunensis
• Carpinus subcordata
• Catalpa sp.
• Celtis nathorstii
• Cercidphyllum crenatum
• Cinnamomum akitaense
• Cinnamomum miocenum
• Cladrastis chaneyi
• Corylus takaminensis
• Fagus stuxbergi
• Ficus sp.
• Fraxinus takaminensis
• Gledtsia miosinensis
• Glyptostrobus europaeus
• Ilex cf. goshiensis
• Ilex subcornuta
• Kalopanax acerifolius
• Lindera miyataensis
• Liquidambar cordata
• Liquidambar protopalmata
• Liriodendron honsyuensis
• Maackia onoei
• Metasequoia occidentalis
• Myssa sp.
• Paliurus protonipponicus
• Parrotia pristina
• Poacites sp.
• Populus sambonsgii
• Pterocarya japonica
• Pterocarya protostenoptera
• Pueraria sp.
• Pyrus hokiensis
• Rosa cf. usyuensis
• Sabia cf. japonica
• Salix k-suzukii
• Salix takaminensis
• Saplum mogiensis
• Sasa sp.
• Sassafras cf. yabei
• Sequoia langsdorfii
• Smilax trinervis
• Sophora miojaponica
• Stewartia okutsui
• Stewartia submonadelpha
• Taxodium dublum
• Tilia distans
• Ulmus cf. longifolia
• Ulmus protojaponica
• Wisteria fallax
• Zelkova ungeri

• Yanagisawa and Yamamoto (1998) Geology of the Tamaniwa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 94p. (in Japanese with English abstract 4p.)