Hashiramoto, Hashimoto City: Maastrichtian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Mosasauridae
Tooth (photographed in Kinki 1991, Tanimoto 1997 and Ohara 2004)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Wakayama
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 135.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 126.6° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.2 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Izumi Formation:Kokawa
Stratigraphy comments: mid-Maastrichtian or younger age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Izumi Mountains of Honshu Island
Database number:119019
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Created:2011-10-20 03:47:26 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-20 03:47:26
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

38237. M. Tanimoto. 2005. Mosasaur remains from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group of southwest Japan. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):373-378 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]