west bank, Asuwa River tracksite (Jurassic to of Japan)

Also known as Miyama

Where: Fukui, Japan (36.0° N, 136.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 138.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kowashimizu Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• at least three layers in the middle part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone and fine-grained sandstone

• "thin-laminated mudstone intercalated by fine-grained sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by M. Shimada in 2007

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: M. Shimada, Y. Noda, S. Hayashi, Y. Azuma, A. Yabe and K. Terada. 2010. Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous dinosaur and bird footprints from the Tetori Group in Fukui City, Cukui Prefecture, central Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 9:47-54 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224183: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet. Marsh 1881 ornithopod
 Saurischia -
? Sauropoda indet. Marsh 1878 sauropod
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Aves
 Aves -