Minamizawa, Kohisa: Late Coniacian, Japan
collected 1986-1987

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Nemegtosauridae
2 specimens
teeth
Tanimoto and Suzuki 1997
IMCF nos. 959, 1122
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukushima
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 141.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.2° North, 141.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Late Coniacian
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 85.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Futaba Formation:Tamayama
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Geology comments: "shallow marine"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1986-1987
Collection method comments: collected by amateur paleontologists
Metadata
Also known as:Iwaki
Database number:119091
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-10-21 06:49:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-10-21 06:49:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

54277 Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1997. Japanese dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie, K. Padian (eds.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 375-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
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]
38256 M. Tanimoto and C. Suzuki. 1997. [Sauropod teeth (cf. Nemegtosaurus sp.) from the Tamayama Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian), Futaba Group of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast Japan]. Research Reports IWAKI Natural History 1-4 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
38258 M. Tanimoto and C. Suzuki. 1998. [Wear facet of teeth in the Nemegtosauridae—new knowledge from Suzuki's sauropod specimen from Iwaki]. Research Reports IWAKI Natural History 1-3 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]