Iwaki, Santonian: Early Santonian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Sclerorhynchiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukushima
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 140.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.3° North, 138.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6
Key time interval: Early Santonian Inoceramid zone:  Inoceramus amakusensis
Age range of interval: 85.7 - 83.6 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Futaba Formation:Tamayama
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: lower Santonian, Inoceramus amakusensis Subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:91414
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-21 12:51:46 Last modified:2025-07-28 14:52:27
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-21 12:51:46
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

30782. T. Uyeno and Y. Hasegawa. 1986. A new Cretaceous ganopristoid sawfish of the genus Ischyrhiza from Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum Tokyo, Series C 12(2):67-72 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]