Integrated magnetobiochronology of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Miyazaki succession, southern Kyushu, southwest Japan: Implications for an Early Pleistocene hiatus and defining the base of the Gelasian (P/P boundary type section) in Japan

► The magnetobiochronology for the Pliocene to early Pleistocene for the Northwest Pacific. ► The new lithostratigraphic classification of the uppermost Miyazaki succession. ► Hiatus, Hisamine Unconformity, between the Miyazaki and Hyuga-nada Groups. ► The NGT section is the type section for the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary in Japan.