"Fossil Wall", Kuwajima: Hauterivian - Barremian, Japan
collected by Takeyama, Azuma & Araki 1981-1985
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| FPM86031-1, FPM87003-1 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Tsukiji et al. 2019 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| ISBEV004 | ||||||||||
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Kuwajimasauropus shireminensis n. gen., n. sp.
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Azuma and Takeyama 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| ISBEV001 ("Shiramine specimen C") | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Avetheropoda
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Carnosauria indet.
Huene 1920
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| FPM85050-1 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Iguanodontipodidae
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Shiraminesauropus reini n. gen., n. sp.
Azuma and Takeyama 1991
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Azuma and Takeyama 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Iguanodontipodidae | ||||||||||
| FPMN 850321 (=FPDM-F-164, "Shiramine specimen A") | ||||||||||
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Gigantoshiraminesauropus matsuoi n. gen., n. sp.
Azuma and Takeyama 1991
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Azuma and Takeyama 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Iguanodontipodidae | ||||||||||
| ISBEV002 ("Shiramine specimen B") | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Unio sp.
Philipsson 1788
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Gastropoda
- Viviparidae
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Viviparus ogamigoensis
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Ishikawa |
| Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 136.6° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 46.2° North, 138.2° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Altitude: | 599 meters | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Hauterivian - Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 132.60000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Alternating sequence of sandstone and shale units. | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: Environmental changes from brackish to non-marine conditions. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Takeyama, Azuma & Araki | Collection dates: | 1981-1985 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Shiramine tracksite, Kaseki-Kabe | ||
| Database number: | 52177 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-07-28 15:09:57 | Last modified: | 2022-08-22 15:21:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-07-28 15:09:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14022. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 36936 | ETE | Y. Azuma and K.-i. Takeyama. 1991. Dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group, central Japan—research of dinosaurs from the Tetori Group (4). Bulletin of the Fukui Prefectural Museum 4:33-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 36939 | Y. Azuma, K.-i. Takeyama, N. Kondo, I. Yamaguchi, K. Jochi and S. Hayashi. 1991. [Occurrence and stratigraphical horizons of the dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group, central Japan—research of dinosaurs from the Tetori Group (3)]. Bulletin of the Fukui Prefectural Museum 4:15-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 54268 | Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1995. Early Cretaceous dinosaur fauna of the Tetori Group in Japan. In A. Sun, Y. Wang (eds.), Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 125-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner] | |
| 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] | |
| 14092 | ETE | M. G. Lockley and M. Matsukawa. 1998. Lower Cretaceous vertebrate tracksites of East Asia. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:135-142 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 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] | |
| 82449 | Y. Tsukiji, Y. Sakai, and Y. Azuma. 2019. Ichnotaxonomic revision of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Tetori Group, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 18:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |