Amagimi Dam, Tashiro (loc. no. 4) (Cretaceous to of Japan)

Where: Kumamoto, Japan (32.7° N, 130.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 123.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jobu Formation (Mifune Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• "red mudstone facies"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1990

Primary reference: M. Tamura, Y. Okazaki, and N. Ikegami. 1991. [Occurrence of carnosaurian and herbivorous dinosaurs from upper formation of Mifune Group, Japan]. Kumamoto Daigaku Kyōiku Gakubu kiyō. Shizen kagaku 40:31-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 182216: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.10.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877 allosauroid
tooth