Kitadani tracksite: Aptian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Imai et al. 2018
Osteichthyes - Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Lee et al. 2010 5 individuals
FPDM-F022-1, five trackways
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes - Dromaeosauridae
Tsukiji et al. 2026 1 specimen
FPDM-F-178, a natural cast of an isolated track
Osteichthyes
Imai et al. 2018 1 specimen
FPDM-F-75
Osteichthyes - Avipedidae
1 specimen
Imai et al. 2018
FPDM-F-74
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes - Iguanodontidae
Osteichthyes
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukui County:Katsuyama
Coordinates: 36.1° North, 136.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° North, 146.8° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:134 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Aptian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 113.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Kitadani
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Akaiwa Subgroup; different layer to main/original dinosaur site and second bonebed; four footprint horizons present within the quarry
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:fine channel fill
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,mold/impression,trace
Degree of concentration:concentrated
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Katsuyama
Database number:87222
Authorizer:M. Carrano, R. Butler Enterer:M. Carrano, R. Butler
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-10 13:13:38 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-10 13:13:38
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]

Secondary references:

34308ETE Y. Azuma. 2002. Dinosaur remains from Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture. 2002 Annual Meeting, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 21-23, 2002, Katsuyama. Abstracts with Programs 14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29361ETE Y. Azuma and M. Shibata. 2008. New dinosaurs of the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 29-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
29362ETE M. Fujita. 2008. Dinosaur tracks from the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 33-36 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
55479 Fukui Kenritsu Kyoryu Hakubutsukan. 2010. [Exhibit Guidebook of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum]. 1-212 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
82451 T. Imai, Y. Tsukiji, and Y. Azuma. 2018. Description of bird tracks from the Kitadani Formation (Aptian), Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan with three-dimensional imaging techniques. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 17:1-8 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
31945 Y.-N. Lee, Y. Azuma, H.-J. Lee, M. Shibata, and J. 2010. The first pterosaur trackways from Japan. Cretaceous Research 31:263-273 [R. Butler/R. Butler/M. Carrano]
29448ETE M. Matsukawa, K. Shibata, R. Kukihara, K. Koarai, and M. G. Lockley. 2005. Review of Japanese dinosaur track localities: implications for ichnotaxonomy, paleogeography and stratigraphic correlation. Ichnos 12(3):201-222 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
86472 Y. Tsukiji, Y. Azuma, F. Shiraishi and M. Shibata. 2017. New ornithopod footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, Japan: ichnotaxonomical implications. In D. Cheong, Y.-I. Lee, & D. Kim (eds.), Cretaceous Ecosystems and Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes in Asia and the Western Pacific. Proceedings and Field Guidebook for the Fifth International Symposium of International Geoscience Programme IGCP Project 608 94-96\ [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
96009 Y. Tsukiji, S. Hattori, and Y. Azuma. 2026. First didactyl theropod track from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Tetori Group, Fukui, Japan. Cretaceous Research 179(78):106249:1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]