Adocus sengokuensis type locality: Late/Upper Barremian, Japan
collected by Masahiro Sato 1994
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sengokuensis n. sp.
Sonoda et al. 2015
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| KMNH VP 000,024 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Kyushu | County: | Fukuoka |
| Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 130.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 132.2° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Kanmon | Formation: | Sengoku | Member: | Upper |
| Stratigraphy comments: The Sengoku Formation has been correlated with the upper Barremian by freshwater molluscan fossils including Trigonioides and Plicatounio (Hase, 1960; Ota, 1960; Matsumoto et al., 1982; Kozai et al., 2005). The radiometric age of this formation has not been dated yet. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | argillaceous sandstone |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Masahiro Sato | Collection dates: | 1994 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 165693 | ||
| Authorizer: | D. Nicholson | Enterer: | D. Nicholson |
| Modifier: | D. Nicholson | ||
| Created: | 2015-01-26 06:08:50 | Last modified: | 2015-01-26 09:29:51 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-01-26 06:08:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54152. | T. Sonoda, R. Hirayama, Y. Okazaki and H. Ando. 2015. A new species of the genus Adocus (Adocidae, Testudines) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southwest Japan. Paleontological Research 19(1):26-32 [D. Nicholson/D. Nicholson] |