"Fossil Wall", Kuwajima: Hauterivian - Barremian, Japan
collected by Takeyama, Azuma & Araki 1981-1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788
Osteichthyes - Dinosauria
2 individuals
FPM86031-1, FPM87003-1
Osteichthyes - Iguanodontipodidae
Azuma and Takeyama 1991 1 specimen
FPMN 850321 (=FPDM-F-164, "Shiramine specimen A")
Azuma and Takeyama 1991 1 specimen
ISBEV002 ("Shiramine specimen B")
Osteichthyes
Tsukiji et al. 2019 1 specimen
ISBEV004
Azuma and Takeyama 1991 1 specimen
ISBEV001 ("Shiramine specimen C")
Osteichthyes - Avetheropoda
1 specimen
FPM85050-1
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Ishikawa
Coordinates: 36.2° North, 136.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.0° North, 143.2° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:599 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
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:Tetori Formation:Kuwajima
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Itoshiro Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Alternating sequence of sandstone and shale units.
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: Environmental changes from brackish to non-marine conditions.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Takeyama, Azuma & Araki Collection dates:1981-1985
Metadata
Also known as:Shiramine tracksite, Kaseki-Kabe
Database number:52177
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-07-28 15:09:57 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2005-07-28 15:09:57
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
14022.ETE M. Manabe, Y. Hasegawa, and Y. Azuma. 1989. Two new dinosaur footprints from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Japan. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 309-312 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

36936ETE Y. Azuma and K.-i. Takeyama. 1991. Dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group, central Japan—research of dinosaurs from the Tetori Group (4). Bulletin of the Fukui Prefectural Museum 4:33-51 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36939 Y. Azuma, K.-i. Takeyama, N. Kondo, I. Yamaguchi, K. Jochi and S. Hayashi. 1991. [Occurrence and stratigraphical horizons of the dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group, central Japan—research of dinosaurs from the Tetori Group (3)]. Bulletin of the Fukui Prefectural Museum 4:15-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
54268 Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1995. Early Cretaceous dinosaur fauna of the Tetori Group in Japan. In A. Sun, Y. Wang (eds.), Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers 125-131 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/P. Wagner]
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]
14092ETE M. G. Lockley and M. Matsukawa. 1998. Lower Cretaceous vertebrate tracksites of East Asia. In S. G. Lucas, J. I. Kirkland, and J. W. Estep (eds.), Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:135-142 [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]
82449 Y. Tsukiji, Y. Sakai, and Y. Azuma. 2019. Ichnotaxonomic revision of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Tetori Group, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 18:1-20 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]