roadside outcrop, Kokuraminami-ku: Hauterivian - Barremian, Japan
collected by Takayoshi Harada 1991
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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"Reptilia" indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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| Teeth | ||||||||||
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Neoceratopsia indet.
Sereno 1986
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1 individual | |||||||||
| KMNH VP 000,025, partial maxillary or dentary tooth; orig. ID as hadrosaurid in Okazaki 1994 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Fukuoka |
| Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 130.8° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.8° North, 132.5° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | tuffaceous siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "from a siltstone bed…recovered from a tuffaceous siltstone layer" | |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Takayoshi Harada | Collection dates: | 1991 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 155619 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-04-20 13:22:36 | Last modified: | 2023-02-06 12:31:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-04-20 13:22:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50828. | K. Tanoue and Y. Okazaki. 2014. The first basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 18(2):77-81 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] |