Mifune Area, Upper Mifune Group: Coniacian - Santonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Trionychidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Kumamoto
Coordinates: 32.7° North, 130.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.6° North, 131.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
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
Geological group:Mifune
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: "Upper Formation, Mifune Group"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:190937
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-12-26 00:55:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-26 00:55:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
64230. I. G. Danilov and N. S. Vitek. 2013. Cretaceous Trionychids of Asia: An Expanded Review of Their Record and Biogeography. In D. Brinkman, P. A. Holroyd, J. Gardner (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles 419-438 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]