roadside outcrop, Kokuraminami-ku: Hauterivian - Barremian, Japan
collected by Takayoshi Harada 1991

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Teeth
1 individual
KMNH VP 000,025, partial maxillary or dentary tooth; orig. ID as hadrosaurid in Okazaki 1994
Teeth
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukuoka
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 130.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.9° North, 138.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Hauterivian - Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Hauterivian - Barremian
Age range of interval: 132.6 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kanmon Formation:Gamo
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Wakino Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:tuffaceous siltstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "from a siltstone bed…recovered from a tuffaceous siltstone layer"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:occasional
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Takayoshi Harada Collection dates:1991
Metadata
Database number:155619
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:J. Tennant
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-04-20 13:22:36 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2014-04-20 13:22:36
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
50828. K. Tanoue and Y. Okazaki. 2014. The first basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 18(2):77-81 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]