Byakodan, Hakusan tracksite: Valanginian - Barremian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Caririchnium sp. Leonardi 1984
Matsukawa et al. 2005 1 specimen
TGUSE-DT1007
Reptilia
Byadkudansauropus shiraminensis n. gen., n. sp. Azuma and Takeyama 1991
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Byakudansauropus
ISBEV003
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Ishikawa County:Shiramine-mura
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 136.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.5° North, 138.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:99 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Valanginian - Barremian
Age range of interval:139.80000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Akaiwa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: orig. listed as the Akaiwa sandstone member, middle part of Akaiwa Subgroup; also listed as Amagodani Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Geology comments: "channel and deltaic deposition"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Byakudan
Database number:60521
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-05-16 14:44:48 Last modified:2022-08-22 13:55:54
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-16 14:44:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]
29362ETE M. Fujita. 2008. Dinosaur tracks from the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 33-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14092ETE 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]
16852ETE M. Matsukawa, M. G. Lockley, and J. Li. 2006. Cretaceous terrestrial biotas of East Asia, with special reference to dinosaur-dominated ichnofaunas: towards a synthesis. Cretaceous Research 27(1):3-21 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29448ETE M. Matsukawa, K. Shibata, R. Kukihara, K. Koarai, and M. G. Lockley. 2005. Review of Japanese dinosaur track localities: implications for ichnotaxonomy, paleogeography and stratigraphic correlation. Ichnos 12(3):201-222 [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]