Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (upper, BB III): Aptian, Japan
collected by Fukui Dinosaur Museum 2007-

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Theropoda indet. (Marsh 1881)
1 individual
    = Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969
Azuma and Shibata 2010
    = Fukuivenator paradoxus n. gen., n. sp. Azuma et al. 2016
Azuma et al. 2016
FPDM-V8461
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukui County:Katsuyama
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 136.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 137.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:134 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Aptian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:Aptian
Age range of interval:125.00000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Kitadani
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Akaiwa Subgroup; higher layer than main/original dinosaur site (5 m above)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,medium,gray,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "greenish to dark gray fine to medium s.s."
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Fukui Dinosaur Museum Collection dates:2007-
Metadata
Also known as:Bonebed III, Katsuyama
Database number:166210
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-02-05 09:07:39 Last modified:2022-08-22 15:53:04
Access level:the public Released:2015-02-05 09:07:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29361.ETE Y. Azuma and M. Shibata. 2008. New dinosaurs of the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 29-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

37922 Y. Azuma and M. Shibata. 2010. Fukuititan nipponensis, a new titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(3):454-462 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
66126 Y. Azuma, X. Xu, M. Shibata, S. Kawabe, K. Miyata and T. Imai. 2016. A bizarre theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Japan highlighting mosaic evolution among coelurosaurians. Scientific Reports 6:20478 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]
55479 Fukui Kenritsu Kyoryu Hakubutsukan. 2010. [Exhibit Guidebook of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum]. 1-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82450 S. Hattori, S. Kawabe, T. Imai, M. Shibata, K. Miyata, X. Xu, and Y. Azuma. 2021. Osteology of Fukuivenator paradoxus: a bizarre maniraptoran theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Fukui, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 20:1-82 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54271 M. Shibata and Y. Azuma. 2015. New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan. Zootaxa 3914(4):421-440 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]
29441ETE M. Shibata and M. Goto. 2008. Report of the 3rd Dinosaur Excavation Project in Katsuyama, Fukui, 2007. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 7:109-116 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60586 S. Suzuki, M. Shibata, Y. Azuma, H. Yukawa, T. Sekiya and Y. Masaoka. 2015. Sedimentary environment of dinosaur fossil bearing successions of the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Tetori Group, Katsuyama City, Fukui, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 14:1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]