Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry (upper, BB III) (Cretaceous of Japan)

Also known as Bonebed III, Katsuyama

Where: Fukui, Japan (36.1° N, 136.5° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 137.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kitadani Formation (Tetori Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Akaiwa Subgroup; higher layer than main/original dinosaur site (5 m above)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, medium, gray, green sandstone

• "greenish to dark gray fine to medium s.s."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Fukui Dinosaur Museum in 2007-

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: Y. Azuma and M. Shibata. 2008. New dinosaurs of the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui 29-31 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166210: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 05.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Fukuivenator paradoxus n. gen. n. sp.
Fukuivenator paradoxus n. gen. n. sp. Azuma et al. 2016 coelurosaur