Kawakami Colliery, Sakhalin (Cretaceous to of Russian Federation)

Also known as Nipponosaurus type, Sinegorsk

Where: Sakhalin, Russian Federation (47.2° N, 142.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 130.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ryugase Group, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

• "Upper Ammonites Bed" = Upper Yezo Group originally

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; mudstone

• "a muddy bottom not far form shore"; "shallow marine"
• "shale" with cast of ammonite; "shallow marine mudstone"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by K. Nemoto in 1934–1937

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: T. Nagao. 1936. Nipponosaurus sachalinensis: a new genus and species of trachodont dinosaur from Japanese Saghalien. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido Imperial University, series 4, Geology and Mineralogy 3(2):185-220 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38138: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"terrestrial plant fragments"
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Nipponosaurus sachalinensis n. gen. n. sp. Nagao 1936 lambeosaurine
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia japonica ammonite
external cast
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus schmidti Sokolow 1914 clam