Amagimi Dam, Tashiro (loc. no. 1) (Cretaceous to of Japan)

Where: Kumamoto, Japan (32.7° N, 130.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 123.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Jobu Formation (Mifune Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian to Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 89.3 Ma)

• upper part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red mudstone

• "red mudstone facies"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in 1990

Primary reference: M. Tamura, Y. Okazaki, and N. Ikegami. 1991. [Occurrence of carnosaurian and herbivorous dinosaurs from upper formation of Mifune Group, Japan]. Kumamoto Daigaku Kyōiku Gakubu kiyō. Shizen kagaku 40:31-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51963: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.07.2005, edited by Roger Benson, Philip Mannion and Matthew Oreska

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Zhelestidae
Sorlestes mifunensis n. sp.6 Setoguchi et al. 1999 eutherian
KUJM 95002 (holotype mandibular fragment with molar)
Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.3 Cope 1868 turtle
Shachemys sp.3 Kuznetsov 1976 turtle
 Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Nanhsiungchelyidae indet.4 Yeh 1966 turtle
attributed to Basilemys sp. by Hirayama (1998)
 Ornithischia -
Ceratopsia indet. ceratopsian
tooth
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
metatarsals, teeth
Tetanurae indet.1 Gauthier 1986 tetanuran theropod
 Theropoda - Therizinosauridae
Therizinosauridae indet.5 Maleev 1954 coelurosaur
braincase