Also known as Iwaki

Where: Fukushima, Japan (37.1° N, 141.0° E: paleocoordinates 49.5° N, 131.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tamayama Formation (Futaba Group), Late/Upper Coniacian (89.3 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1986-1987

• collected by amateur paleontologists

Primary reference: M. Matsukawa and I. Obata. 1994. Dinosaurs and sedimentary environments in the Japanese Cretaceous: a contribution to dinosaur facies in Asia based on molluscan palaeontology and stratigraphy. Cretaceous Research 15(1):101-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 119091: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.10.2011

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