quarry, Kokura area: Hauterivian - Barremian, Japan
collected by Y. Okazaki 1996

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
1 specimen
KMNH VP 600014, partial cervical vertebra
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukuoka
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 130.9° 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: middle part of formation; Wakino Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "a siltstone layer considered to be a lacustrine deposit"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Y. Okazaki Collection dates:1996
Metadata
Database number:229064
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2023-02-06 12:34:56 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2023-02-06 12:34:56
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
83803. J.-I. Tatehata, T. Mukunoki, and K. Tanoue. 2023. Description of a titanosauriform (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) cervical vertebra from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 27(3):350-358 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]