Taniyamadani, Loc. 2 (Cretaceous of Japan)

Also known as Taniyama

Where: Fukui, Japan (35.9° N, 136.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 138.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Itsuki Formation (Tetori Group), Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and sandstone

• "alternating beds of mudstone and sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The specimens used in this paper are all Izumi Folk Museum (abbreviation: OMFJ) and Fukui City Natural History Museum (abbreviation: FCMNH)

Primary reference: R. Hirayama and S. Teppei. 2019. Fossil turtles from the Lower Cretaceous Tetori Group in the Kuzuryu area, Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Waseda Global Forum 16:31-49 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207791: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 11.02.2020, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Choristodera -
Choristodera indet. Cope 1876 choristodere
OMFJ V-98
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod
 Testudines -
Trionychia indet. turtle
OMFJ V-86, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 95
 Testudines - Xinjiangchelyidae
Xinjiangchelyidae indet. Nessov 1990 turtle
OMFJ V-84
Osteichthyes
 Therapsida - Tritylodontidae
Tritylodontidae indet. Cope 1884 cynodont
OMFJ V-11
 Halecomorphi - Sinamiidae
Sinamia sp. ray-finned fish
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Unionidae
? Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
unclassified
  -
Charophyta indet. Migula 1890