Kumagaya 4-chrome, Kitakyushu City: Neocomian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Ellimmichthyiformes - Armigatidae
KMNH VP 100,031 - 100,045
KMNH VP 100,001 - 100,015.
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukuoka
Coordinates: 33.9° North, 130.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.7° North, 136.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1-2
Key time interval: Neocomian
Age range of interval: 143.1 - 125.77 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kanmon
Local section:Kowakino-ko lake deposit Local bed:Fourth layer
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Neocomian, Early Cretaceous. The upper layer (fourth layer) of the Wakino-subgroup, Kanmon-group. Paleolake, Kowakino-ko lake deposit. The thickness of the layer which yielded the fish fossils is about 3.6m and is situated about 10m above the lowest border of the fourth layer.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: Fish fossils are foudn in weathered siliceous shale which appears yellowish-white, yellowish-gray or reddish-yellow in colour
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Specimens held in the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History (KMNH)
Metadata
Database number:144936
Authorizer:M. Bell Enterer:M. Bell
Modifier:M. Bell
Created:2013-05-22 00:21:05 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-05-22 00:21:05
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

46900. T. Uyeno. 1979. Early Cretaceous freshwater fishes from Northern Kyushu, Japan I. Description of two new species of the clupeid genus Diplomystus. Bulletin of Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 1:11-24 [M. Bell/M. Bell]