Amagimi Dam, Tashiro (loc. no. 14): Late Cenomanian - Early Turonian, Japan
collected 1990

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Therizinosauridae
4 specimens
vertebra, femur, tibia, tooth
Burigo and Mateus 2024
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kumamoto County:Kamimashiki
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 130.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 136.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:46 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Cenomanian - Turonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 5 - Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Late Cenomanian - Early Turonian
Age range of interval: 100.5 - 89.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Mifune Formation:Jobu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:red mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "red mudstone facies"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:occasional
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1990
Metadata
Also known as:Loc. 1004
Database number:182217
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-10-14 16:19:28 Last modified:2025-08-08 09:50:40
Access level:the public Released:2016-10-14 16:19:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

60601. M. Tamura, Y. Okazaki, and N. Ikegami. 1991. [Occurrence of carnosaurian and herbivorous dinosaurs from upper formation of Mifune Group, Japan]. Kumamoto Daigaku Kyōiku Gakubu kiyō. Shizen kagaku 40:31-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

92221 A. Burigo and O. Mateus. 2024. Allosaurus europaeus (Theropoda: Allosauroidea) revisited and taxonomy of the genus. Diversity 17(1):29:1-60 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
92784 N. Ikegami, J. Scannella, and Y. Tomida. 2019. Additional therizinosauroid bones collected from the Upper Cretaceous Mifune Group, Kumamoto, Japan. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers, 79th Annual Meeting 122 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]