roadcut, Highway 45, Moshi: Late Aptian - Early Albian, Japan
collected 1978

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Hasegawa et al. 1991
unclassified
Hasegawa et al. 1991
Osteichthyes
1 specimen
NSM PV17656, partial humerus
Matsukawa and Obata 1994
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Iwate
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 142.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.7° North, 151.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2-3 - Cretaceous 4
Key time interval: Late Aptian - Early Albian
Age range of interval: 119.57 - 110.1 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Miyako Formation:Tanohata
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: unnamed formation correlated with Tanohata Fm.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,brown lithified sandy,calcareous conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "boulder conglomerate...consists of fairly packed well-rounded gravels of andesitic rock. No stratification is apparent...The boulders are surrounded by round or well rounded cobbles and pebbles, and these are in turn surrounded by poorly sorted sand. The sand matrix is usually brown and badly weathered, in unweathered parts the sand is indurated."
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:extreme
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection dates:1978
Metadata
Also known as:Iwaizumi
Database number:50308
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-05-12 10:46:50 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-12 10:46:50
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

55938. Y. Hasegwa, M. Manabe, and Y. Azuma. 1986. Dinosaur fossils and tracks in Japan. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

54277 Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1997. Japanese dinosaurs. In P. J. Currie, K. Padian (eds.), Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs 375-379 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
55479 Fukui Kenritsu Kyoryu Hakubutsukan. 2010. [Exhibit Guidebook of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum]. 1-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
13513ETE Y. Hasegawa, M. Manabe, T. Hanai, T. Kase, and T. Oji. 1991. A diplodocoid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Miyako Group of Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 17(1):1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]