roadside outcrop, Kokuraminami-ku (Cretaceous to of Japan)

Where: Fukuoka, Japan (33.8° N, 130.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 132.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gamo Formation (Kanmon Group), Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)

• Wakino Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuffaceous siltstone and sandstone

• "from a siltstone bed…recovered from a tuffaceous siltstone layer"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Takayoshi Harada in 1991

Primary reference: K. Tanoue and Y. Okazaki. 2014. The first basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 18(2):77-81 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155619: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 20.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
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"Reptilia" indet.
"Reptilia" indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
Teeth
 Ornithischia -
Neoceratopsia indet.
Neoceratopsia indet. Sereno 1986 ceratopsian
KMNH VP 000,025, partial maxillary or dentary tooth; orig. ID as hadrosaurid in Okazaki 1994
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
Teeth