Kitadani Formation
| Kitadani Formation Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous | |
|---|---|
| Type | Geological formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Asia |
| Country |
 Japan |
The Kitadani Formation is a geological formation in Fukui, Japan whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]
Vertebrate paleofauna
- Dinosauria:
- Fukuiraptor kitadanensis[1] - "Partial skull and associated partial postcranium."[2]
- Fukuititan nipponensis[1]
- Fukuivenator paradoxus[3]
- Dromaeosauridae indet[1]
- Theropoda indet[1]
- Theropod tracks[1]
- Avialan tracks[1]
- Sauropod indet[1]
- Sauropod tracks[1]
- Ornithischian tracks[1]
- Fukuisaurus tetoriensis[1] - "Skull."[4]
- Psittacosaurus sp.[1]
- Dinosaur eggs.[1]
- Koshisaurus katsuyama[5]
- Aves:
- Plagioolithus fukuensis (fossil egg)[6]
- Mammalia:
- Symmetrolestes parvus[7]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 563-570. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- ↑ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 74.
- ↑ Azuma, Y., Xu X., Shibata, M., Kawabe, S., Miyata, K., and Imai, T. 2016. "A bizarre theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Japan highlighting mosaic evolution among coelurosaurians." Scientific Reports, 6(20478). doi:10.1038/srep20478
- ↑ "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 415.
- ↑ Shibaba, Masateru; Azuma, Yoichi (2015). "New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan." (PDF). Zootaxa. 3914: 421. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3914.4.3.|
- ↑ Imai, Takuya; Azuma, Yoichi (2015). "The oldest known avian eggshells, Plagioolithus fukuiensis, from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Barremian) Kitadani Formation, Fukui, Japan". Historical Biology. 27 (8): 1090–1097. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.934232.
- ↑ T. Tsubamoto, G. W. Rougier, S. Isaji, M. Manabe, and A. M. Forasiepi. 2004. New Early Cretaceous spalacotheriid "symmetrodont" mammal from Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):329-346
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