Arashima, Toba city: Valanginian - Barremian, Japan
collected 1996-1998
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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Heteroptychodus sp.
Yabe and Obata 1930
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Tanimoto and Tanaka 1998 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Iguanodontidae indet.
Bonaparte 1850
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Tomida and Tsumura 2006 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
"Iguanodon-like" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Titanosauroidea indet.
Upchurch 1995
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1 individual | |||||||||
Mie Prefectural Museum Fo-0014 | ||||||||||
= Titanosauriformes indet.
Salgado et al. 1997
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Barrett et al. 2002 | |||||||||
= Titanosauria indet.
Bonaparte and Coria 1993
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Tomida and Tsumura 2006 | |||||||||
"fam., gen. et sp. indet." | ||||||||||
= Somphospondyli indet.
Wilson and Sereno 1998
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Mannion et al. 2013 | |||||||||
"Toba dinosaur" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Amiiformes
- Caturidae
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Caturus tenuidens
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1 specimen | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Japan | State/province: | Mie |
Coordinates: | 34.5° North, 136.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 43.9° North, 139.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Altitude: | 0 meters | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Valanginian - Barremian | ||
Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 125.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | argillaceous sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | black siltstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "lower muddy sandstone" | |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Geology comments: "bay environment" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression,trace |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | some |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected) |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1996-1998 |
Collection method comments: excavation by Dinosaur Research Group of Mie Prefecture organized by the Mie Pref. Museum; amateur collecting in 1998 |
Metadata
Database number: | 52343 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion | Enterer: | M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-08-03 13:19:48 | Last modified: | 2015-06-10 15:14:30 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-03 13:19:48 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14079. | ETE | M. Tanimoto. 1998. New find of a sauropod fossil from the Lower Cretaceous Matsuo Group of Toba, Mie Prefecture, southwest Japan. 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 14:201-204 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
19215 | ETE | P. M. Barrett, Y. Hasegawa, M. Manabe, S. Isaji, and H. Matsuoka. 2002. Sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Asia: taxonomic and biogeographical implications. Palaeontology 45(6):1197-1217 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
55479 | Fukui Kenritsu Kyoryu Hakubutsukan. 2010. [Exhibit Guidebook of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum]. 1-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
46153 | P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, R. N. Barnes and O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
41006 | H. Saegusa and Y. Tomida. 2011. Titanosauriform teeth from the Cretaceous of Japan. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):247-265 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
38260 | M. Tanimoto, A. Kaneko, M. Takata and T. Fujimoto. 1997. [A sauropod fossil from the Lower Cretaceous Matsuo Group of Toba, Mie Prefecture, southwest Japan and its significance on the classification]. 1997 Annual Meeting, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, Kyoto. Abstracts with Programs 34 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
38259 | M. Tanimoto and S. Tanaka. 1998. [Heteroptychodus sp. (Chondrichthyes) from the Lower Cretaceou Matsuo Group of Arashima, Toba City, Mie Prefecture, southwest Japan]. Chigakukenkyu 47(1):37-40 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
18726 | ETE | Y. Tomida and Y. Tsumura. 2006. A partial skeleton of titanosaurian sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Toba City, central Japan. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1):217-238 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |