Shiramine tracksite (II): Aptian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Weishampel et al. 2004
Weishampel et al. 2004
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Ishikawa County:Shiramine
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 136.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.0° North, 146.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:599 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Aptian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 113.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Akaiwa
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Akaiwa Subgroup

Based on zircon U-Pb dating, the zircon grains from the tuff of the Akaiwa Formation of the Tetori Group in the Shiramine area which are correlated with the Nochino Formation has an age of 121.2 ± 1.1 Ma (Sakai et al., 2019).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:179247
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-06-08 15:24:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-06-08 15:24:31
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:

54268 Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1995. Early Cretaceous dinosaur fauna of the Tetori Group in Japan. In A. Sun, Y. Wang (eds.), Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 125-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
23520ETE D. B. Weishampel, P. M. Barrett, R. A. Coria, J. Le Loeuff, X. Xu, X. Zhao, A. Sahni, E. M. P. Gomani, and C. R. Noto. 2004. Dinosaur distribution. In D. B. Weishampel, H. Osmolska, and P. Dodson (eds.), The Dinosauria (2nd edition). University of California Press, Berkeley 517-606 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]