Kamegai, Oyama Town tracksite: Berriasian - Valanginian, Japan
collected 1990–1992

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Azuma and Tomida 1995
3 specimens
Azuma and Tomida 1995
Matsukawa et al. 2005
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Toyama County:Kaminiikawa-gun
Coordinates: 36.6° North, 137.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.9° North, 142.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Berriasian - Valanginian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 1
Key time interval: Berriasian - Valanginian
Age range of interval: 143.1 - 132.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: three separate horizons, Itoshiro Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:fluvial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:all
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection dates:1990–1992
Metadata
Also known as:Ooyama, Ohyama, Toyama
Database number:87238
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-11 10:36:13 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-11 10:36:13
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

29369.ETE M. Goto. 1993. Dinosaur footprints from Ooyama Town, Toyama prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Toyama Science Museum 16:1-5 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

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]
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]
78629 M. Matsukawa, T. Hamuro, S. Fuiji and K. Koarai. 2002. Dinosaur tracks from the eastern part of the Tetori Group in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Section IV 54:171-177 [M. Carrano/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]