Oriki, Hironomura: Coniacian - Santonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Nanhsiungchelyidae
Danilov and Syromyatnikova 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan
Coordinates: 37.7° North, 140.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.7° North, 139.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Coniacian - Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Coniacian - Santonian
Age range of interval: 89.8 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Futaba
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Sakurazawa conglomerate, Lower Futaba Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:189008
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-09-27 06:53:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-09-27 06:53:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

48216. S. Tokunaga and S. Shimizu. 1926. The Cretaceous Formation of Futaba in Iwaki and its fossils. Journal of Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo, Section 2 1:181-212 [R. Benson/R. Benson]

Secondary references:

41748 I. G. Danilov and E. V. Syromyatnikova. 2008. New materials on turtles of the family Nanhsiungchelyidae from the Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and Mongolia, with a review of the Nanhsiungchelyid record in Asia. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 312(1/2):3-25 [R. Benson/R. Benson/P. Mannion]