Mizunami amber and fossil insects 1. On the fossil Arthropoda in Mizunami amber from Gifu Prefecture (Pleistocene) | Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum No. 1 (continued)

Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum No. 1 (continued)

Mizunami amber and fossil insects

1. On the fossil Arthropoda in Mizunami amber from Gifu Prefecture (Pleistocene)

Isamu Hiura and Yorio Miyatake

BMFM01-017Hiura&Miyatake, 1974（PDF 2.92MB）

Hiura and Miyatake (1974) print-version

Published: 1974/12/25 　 Page: 385–392, pls. 111–112

[Mizunami amber and fossil insects: General remarks on Arthropoda)]

Over 150 species of Mizunami amber of various size were confirmed to contain more than 300 individuals of fossil arthropods (as a whole of a part). Careful examination by eleven systematic zoologists showed that they consisted of 3 classes, 14 orders and 56 families at least, 32 of which were classified into generic level. They are mostly insects and some are mites, spiders and diplopods. Those representatives of Pleistocene fauna seems to be all extant groups in the sense of systematics. A list of the fossil arthopods in Mizunami ambers is given, and this is the first report on fossil insects in amber from Japan.