PBDB Collection

Amagimi Dam, Tashiro (loc. no. 1): Late Cenomanian - Early Turonian, Japan
collected 1990

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Zhelestidae

	Sorlestes mifunensis n. sp. Setoguchi et al. 1999	Setoguchi et al. 1999	1 specimen
	KUJM 95002 (holotype mandibular fragment with molar)
Reptilia

	Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877		7 specimens
	metatarsals, teeth
	= Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Chure et al. 1999

	Allosaurus sp. Marsh 1877		1 specimen
	= Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Chure et al. 1998
	MDM 341, tooth
	= cf. Carcharodontosauridae indet. Stromer 1931	Chure et al. 1999
	= Tetanurae indet. Gauthier 1986	Carrano et al. 2012
Reptilia - Therizinosauridae

	Therizinosauridae indet. Maleev 1954	Ikegami and Tomida 2005	1 individual
	braincase
Reptilia

	Ceratopsia indet. Marsh 1890		1 specimen
	tooth
Reptilia - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae

	Nanhsiungchelyidae indet. Yeh 1966	Danilov and Syromyatnikova 2008
	attributed to Basilemys sp. by Hirayama (1998)
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	Danilov et al. 2011

	Shachemys sp. Kuznetsov 1976	Danilov et al. 2011
see common names

Geography

Country:	Japan	State/province:	Kumamoto	County:	Kamimashiki
Coordinates:	32.7° North, 130.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	37.8° North, 136.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	based on nearby landmark
Altitude:	46 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Cenomanian - Turonian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 5 - Cretaceous 6
Key time interval:	Late Cenomanian - Early Turonian
Age range of interval:	100.5 - 89.8 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Mifune	Formation:	Jobu
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	red mudstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "red mudstone facies"
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Degree of concentration:	dispersed
Size of fossils:	mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	medium
Disassociated major elements:	all
Fragmentation:	occasional
Temporal resolution:	snapshot

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	field collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:	1990

Metadata

Database number:	51963
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, R. Benson, P. Mannion	Enterer:	M. Carrano, P. Mannion, M. Oreska, R. Benson
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2005-07-06 11:54:03	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2005-07-06 11:54:03
Creative Commons license:	CC0

Reference information

Primary reference:

60601.

M. Tamura, Y. Okazaki, and N. Ikegami. 1991. [Occurrence of carnosaurian and herbivorous dinosaurs from upper formation of Mifune Group, Japan]. Kumamoto Daigaku Kyōiku Gakubu kiyō. Shizen kagaku 40:31-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

41617		M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
33850	ETE	D. Chure, M. Manabe, M. Tanimoto and Y. Tomida. 1998. An unusual theropod tooth from the Mifune Group (Upper Cenomanian-Turonian), Kumamoto, Japan. in Tomida, Y, Rich, TH and Vickers-Rich, P (eds) Second Symposium Gondwana Dinosaurs Abstracts with Program, 12-13 July, 1998, National Science Museum, Tokyo 24 [M. Carrano/M. Oreska/M. Carrano]
13873	ETE	D. J. Chure, M. Manabe, M. Tanimoto and Y. Tomida. 1999. An unusual theropod tooth from the Mifune Group (Late Cenomanian to Early Turonian), Kumamoto, Japan. In Y. Tomida, T. H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich (eds.), Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:291-296 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Oreska]
37404	ETE	I. G. Danilov, V. B. Sukhanov, and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2011. New Asiatic materials on turtles of the family Adocidae with a review of the adocid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 315(2):101-132 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Mannion]
41748		I. G. Danilov and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2008. New materials on turtles of the family Nanhsiungchelyidae from the Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and Mongolia, with a review of the Nanhsiungchelyid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 312(1/2):3-25 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]
80961		N. Ikegami and Y. Tomida. 2005. A therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Mifune Group in Kyushu, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3 (supp.)):73A [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]
25253		T. Setoguchi, T. Tsubamoto, H. Hanamura and K. Hachiya. 1999. An early Late Cretaceous mammal from Japan, with reconsideration of the evolution of tribosphenic molars. Paleontological Research 3(1):18-28 [T. Tsubamoto/T. Tsubamoto]
80958		L. E. Zanno. 2010. A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(4):503-543 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]