Also known as Shiramine tracksite, Kaseki-Kabe
Where: Ishikawa, Japan (36.2° N, 136.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 138.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group), Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 125.0 Ma)
• Itoshiro Subgroup
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collected by Takeyama, Azuma & Araki in 1981-1985
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: M. Manabe, Y. Hasegawa, and Y. Azuma. 1989. Two new dinosaur footprints from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Japan. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 309-312 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52177: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 28.07.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
Viviparus ogamigoensis snail | |
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Gigantoshiraminesauropus matsuoi n. gen. n. sp.1 Azuma and Takeyama 1991 ornithopod ISBEV002 ("Shiramine specimen B")
Shiraminesauropus reini n. gen. n. sp.1 Azuma and Takeyama 1991 ornithopod FPMN 850321 (=FPDM-F-164, "Shiramine specimen A")
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