Miyada microvertebrate site (Sasayama): Early Albian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli
Osteichthyes
MNHAH D1-030444 - holotype (right dentary); referred material: MNHAH D1-030445-030447 (fragments of two left dentaries and one right dentary)
Ikeda et al. 2015 1 specimen
MNHAH D1-032063, an incomplete right mandible with nine tooth positions, including five complete and four incomplete teeth.
4 specimens
At least four different species
Osteichthyes - Dinosauria
Fragmentary remains of dinosaurs
Osteichthyes
Tanaka et al. 2024 2 individuals
MNHAH D1-060516 (holotype), D1-060517-528
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hyogo
Coordinates: 35.1° North, 135.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 146.3° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Early Albian
Age range of interval: 113.2 - 110.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Sasayama Formation:Ohyamashimo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "Lower Formation" of the Sasayama Group
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red siltstone
Lithology description: Red siltstone bed
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Sasayamamylos kawaii type
Database number:141507
Authorizer:P. Mannion, E. Vlachos Enterer:P. Mannion, F. Aspromonte, J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-03-28 01:57:42 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-28 01:57:42
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

45999. N. Kusuhashi, Y. Tsutsumi, H. Saegusa, K. Horie, T. Ikeda, K. Yokoyama, and K. Shiraishi. 2013. A new Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal from the Sasayama Group, Hyogo, Japan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

54168 T. Ikeda, H. Ota, and H. Saegusa. 2015. A new fossil lizard from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(1):e885032 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]
89376 T. Tanaka, K. Chiba, T. Ikeda and M. J. Ryan. 2024. A new neoceratopsian (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian), southwestern Japan. Papers in Palaeontology (e1587)1-30 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte]