Kitazawa, Hirono: Early/Lower Coniacian, Japan
collected by Watanabe family 1986
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Theropoda indet.
(Marsh 1881)
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Ohashi et al. 2015 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| distal tibia | ||||||||||
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= Coelurosauria indet.
Huene 1914
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Ohashi et al. 2011 | |||||||||
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Tanius sp.
Wiman 1929
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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= Hadrosauroidea indet.
Huene 1954
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Ohashi et al. 2011 | |||||||||
| FM-N201300172 (maxillary tooth), FM201300171 (cervical vertebra) | ||||||||||
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Mesosuchia indet.
Huxley 1875
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= "Mesosuchia" indet.
Huxley 1875
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Ohashi et al. 2015 | |||||||||
| invalid subgroup of Mesoeucrocodylia | ||||||||||
| partial snout | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Myalinida
- Inoceramidae
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Inoceramus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Nostoceratidae
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Nipponites bacchus
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Desmoceratidae
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Mesopuzosia pacifica
Matsumoto 1954
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= Mesopuzosia yubarensis
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Ohashi et al. 2015 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Japan | State/province: | Fukushima | County: | Hirono |
| Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 140.9° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.5° North, 131.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Coniacian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Coniacian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 89.80000 - 86.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | shoreface |
| Geology comments: "lower shoreface to inner shelf" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Watanabe family | Collection dates: | 1986 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 170188 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-06-16 09:43:25 | Last modified: | 2016-09-16 13:32:54 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-06-16 09:43:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 59116. | Y. Hasegawa, T. Watanabe, K. Oshida, A. Takizawa, Y. Kouda and S. Suzuki. 1987. [Dinosaur fossils from the Futaba Group, Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture]. Absracts of the 136th Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 20–21, 1987, Fukui 4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 83329 | T. Ohashi, Y. Hasegawa, T. Tsuihiji, M. Manabe, Y. Koda and M. Nemoto. 2011. Dinosaur fauna of the Coniacian Futaba Group, northeastern Japan. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of IGCP 507 on Paleoclimates of the Cretaceous in Asia and Their Global Correlation 46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 55535 | T. Ohashi, A. Prieto-Marquéz, Y. Hasegawa, Y. Koda, Y. Taketani and M. Nemoto. 2015. Hadrosauroid remains from the Coniacian (Late Cretaceous) Futaba Group, northeastern Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A 13:1-6 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |