Kaseki-kabe (facies I), Shiramine: Barremian, Japan
collected 1997

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli
1 specimen
    = Archaeobatrachia indet. Reig 1958
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Choristodera
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Isaji et al. 2005
Trionychoidea indet. Fitzinger 1826
Isaji et al. 2005
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Testudines - Sinemydidae
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Iguanodontidae
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Dromaeosauridae
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Pterosauria
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Squamata
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Tritylodontidae
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Amiiformes - Sinamiidae
Isaji et al. 2005
Osteichthyes - Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
Isaji et al. 2005
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Isaji et al. 2005
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Isaji et al. 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Ishikawa
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 136.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.6° North, 144.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Barremian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 2
Key time interval: Barremian
Age range of interval: 125.77 - 121.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Kuwajima
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "upper horizon" of Kuwajima Formation, uppermost part of Itoshiro Subgroup, Tetori Group. Described as "lower Neocomian", and older that "late Barremian", but authors' use of "Neocomian" seems to include some of the Gallic as well.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:coarse sandstone
Secondary lithology: coal
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "alternations of massive sandstones, fine-grained sandstones and mudstones"; facies I = "massive and coarse-grained. They also often show well-developed parallel bedding marked by thin accumulations of numerous plant remains. The coarse-grained sandstones tend to grade into organic-rich fine-grained sandstones or coals."
Environment:mire/swamp
Geology comments: "deposited in the channels of braided rivers and flood plains", specifically in a "peat marsh"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Articulated whole bodies:none
Associated major elements:none
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1997
Taxonomic list comments:"Theropoda sp. C" is described as a member of the (unnamed) clade Oviraptorosauria + Therizinosauroidea. Another theropod is described as "Tetanurae", but the authors do not indicate whether this is sp. A or B. Note that the authors use "sp." for most of the unidentified species, but I have replaced most with "indet." because the groups are higher taxa, not genera (i.e. "Anura indet." instead of "Anura sp.").
Metadata
Also known as:Kasekiheki
Database number:50359
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-05-13 14:35:03 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-05-13 14:35:03
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
13515.ETE Y. Hasegawa, M. Manabe, S. Isaji, M. Ohkura, I. Shibata and I. Yamaguchi. 1995. Terminally resorbed iguanodontid teeth from the Neocomian Tetori Group, Ishikawa and Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 21(1, 2):35-49 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
13526ETE S. Isaji, H. Okazaki, R. Hirayama, H. Matsuoka, P. M. Barrett, T. Tsubamoto, M. Yamaguchi, I. Yamaguchi, and T. Sakumoto. 2005. Depositional environments and taphonomy of the bone-bearing beds of the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A 3:123-133 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17538ETE M. T. Matsukawa, K. Saiki, M. Ito, I. Obata, D. J. Nichols, M. G. Lockley, R. Kukihara and K. Shibata. 2006. Early Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems in East Asia based on food-web and energy-flow models. Cretaceous Research 27:285-307 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
8713 H. Matsuoka, N. Kusuhashi, T. Takada and T. Setogushi. 2002. A clue to the Neocomian vertebrate fauna: initial results from the Kuwajima "Kaseki-kabe" (Tetori Group) in Shiramine, Ishikawa, central Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 59(1):33-45 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
69508 S.-i. Sano and A. Yabe. 2017. Fauna and flora of Early Cretaceous Tetori Group in central Japan: the clues to revealing the evolution of Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem in Asia. Palaeoworld 26:253-267 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]