Sengokukyo (Cretaceous of Japan)

Also known as Wakinosaurus type

Where: Fukuoka, Japan (33.7° N, 130.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 132.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sengoku Formation (Kanmon Group), Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• originally described as Neocomian; Wakino Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; medium-grained, coarse, gray, green, blue sandstone and black mudstone

• "freshwater"
• "bluish or pale greenish gray, medium-grained sandstone to coarse shale with black mud patches"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Sato in 1990

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: O. Mihiko. 1990. [Discovery of dinosaur fossil from the Kanmon Group]. 139th Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 30-July 1, 1990 37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39660: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.06.2004, edited by David Nicholson

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Brotiopsis spp.1 Suzuki 1943 snail
Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet.2 Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Theropoda -
Wakinosaurus satoi n. gen. n. sp.1
Wakinosaurus satoi n. gen. n. sp.1 Okazaki 1992 theropod
"wakinosaur"