Kamitaki Bonebed Quarry, Tamba City (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Hyogo, Japan (35.1° N, 135.1° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 132.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ohyamashimo Formation (Sasayama Group), Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• 8 m above base of section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; paleosol/pedogenic, red mudstone

• red mudstone; "reddish paleosol mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by M. Shigeru & A. Kiyoshi in 2006–2010

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Discovered by Murakami Shigeru and Adachi Kiyoshi

Primary reference: H. Saegusa, S. Tanaka, T. Ikeda, T. Matsubara, H. Frutani and K. Handa. 2008. On the occurrence of sauropod and some associated vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, SW Japan. Journal of Fossil Research 41(1):2-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117980: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.09.2011, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Salientia -
Anura indet.4 Fischer von Waldheim 1813 frog
Reptilia
 Squamata -
 Theropoda -
Nipponoolithus ramosus n. gen. n. sp.4
Nipponoolithus ramosus n. gen. n. sp.4 Tanaka et al. 2016 theropod
MNHAH D1-040057 to D1-040063
 Theropoda - Elongatoolithidae
Elongatoolithus sp.4 Zhao 1975 theropod
MNHAH D1-040064 to D1-040080
 Theropoda -
Therizinosauroidea indet.4 Russell and Dong 1994 coelurosaur
Tyrannosauroidea indet.2 Walker 1964 coelurosaur
shed teeth
 Theropoda - Laevisoolithidae
Subtiliolithus hyogoensis n. sp.3 Tanaka et al. 2020 theropod
MNHAH D1-040096 to D1-040098 (eggshells)
 Saurischia - Euhelopodidae
Tambatitanis amicitiae n. gen. n. sp.1
Tambatitanis amicitiae n. gen. n. sp.1 Saegusa and Ikeda 2014 euhelopodid
teeth, partial braincase, atlas, ribs, dorsal vertebrae, pubis, ilium, haemal arches, and caudal vertebrae
 Ornithischia - Spheroolithidae
Spheroolithus sp.4 Zhao 1979 ornithopod
MNHAH D1-040099 to D1-040106
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Iguanodontidae indet.2 Bonaparte 1850 iguanodontid
 Ornithischia -
Ankylosauria indet.4 Osborn 1923 ankylosaur
  - Prismatoolithidae
Prismatoolithus sp.4 Zhao and Li 1993 dinosaur
MNHAH D1-040081 to D1-040095