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Meoto-sugi dinosaur footprint (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Fukui, Japan (43.8° N, 144.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 148.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Itsuki Formation (Tetori Group), Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; shale and sandstone

• described as marginal lacustrine
• conglomeratic sandstone, coarse- to fine-grained sanstone, and shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by T. Sugimori in 1990

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• refers to footprint only; collected by Tatsuji Sugimori

Primary reference: Y. Azuma, T. Sugimori, K. Yamada, T. Kojima, and K.-i. Takeyama. 1992. Two dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group of Izumi Village, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Japan Sea Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 24:19-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 24805: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 20.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives)

Meoto-sugi dinosaur footprint: Hauterivian, Japan
collected by T. Sugimori 1990

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Neomiodontidae
Myrene sp.
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Tetoria sp.
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
1 specimen
FIBEV003
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Fukui
Coordinates: 43.8° North, 144.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.9° North, 148.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Altitude:52 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Hauterivian
Age range of interval:136.4 - 130.0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Tetori Formation:Itsuki
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: conglomeratic sandstone, coarse- to fine-grained sanstone, and shale
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: described as marginal lacustrine
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,trace
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Disassociated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera,some macrofossils,species names
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:T. Sugimori Collection dates:1990
Collection method comments: refers to footprint only; collected by Tatsuji Sugimori
Metadata
Database number:24805
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-08-20 13:07:32 Last modified:2009-03-11 07:26:19
Access level:the public Released:2002-08-20 13:07:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY-NC-ND
Reference information
Primary reference:
69575% 16700Y. Azuma, T. Sugimori, K. Yamada, T. Kojima, and K.-i. Takeyama. 1992. Two dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group of Izumi Village, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Japan Sea Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 24:19-33 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

10132 M. J. Fujita. 2003. Geological age and correlation of the vertebrate-bearing horizons in the Tetori Group. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 2:3-14 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]