Sengokukyo: Late/Upper Barremian, Japan
collected by M. Sato 1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Megalosauridae indet.
(Fitzinger 1843)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "wakinosaur" | ||||||||||
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= Wakinosaurus satoi n. gen., n. sp.
Okazaki 1992
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Okazaki 1992 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Theropoda | ||||||||||
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Sonoda et al. 2015 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Adocidae
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Adocus sp.
Cope 1868
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Okazaki 1992 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Thiaridae
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Brotiopsis spp.
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Okazaki 1992 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Fukuoka | County: | Kurate |
| Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 130.6° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 132.3° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| 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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,coarse,gray,green,blue sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | black mudstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "bluish or pale greenish gray, medium-grained sandstone to coarse shale with black mud patches" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: "freshwater" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | M. Sato | Collection dates: | 9 Mar 1990 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Wakinosaurus type | ||
| Database number: | 39660 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, D. Nicholson | Enterer: | M. Carrano, D. Nicholson |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-06-02 08:40:53 | Last modified: | 2022-02-10 09:03:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-06-02 08:40:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 65482. | O. Mihiko. 1990. [Discovery of dinosaur fossil from the Kanmon Group]. 139th Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 30-July 1, 1990 37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 54277 | Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1997. Japanese dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie, K. Padian (eds.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 375-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] | |
| 54260 | M. Matsukawa and I. Obata. 1994. Dinosaurs and sedimentary environments in the Japanese Cretaceous: a contribution to dinosaur facies in Asia based on molluscan palaeontology and stratigraphy. Cretaceous Research 15(1):101-125 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 10742 | ETE | Y. Okazaki. 1992. A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, northern Kyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11:87-90 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 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] |