"Fossil Wall", Kuwajima (Cretaceous to of Japan)

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

• Environmental changes from brackish to non-marine conditions.
• Alternating sequence of sandstone and shale units.

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
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
FPM86031-1, FPM87003-1
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet.2 Marsh 1881 theropod
ISBEV004
Kuwajimasauropus shireminensis n. gen. n. sp.1 theropod
ISBEV001 ("Shiramine specimen C")
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet. carnosaur
FPM85050-1
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
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")