Mifune-ryu, Kami-Umeki (Cretaceous of Japan)

Where: Kumamoto, Japan (32.7° N, 130.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 124.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kabu Formation (Mifune Group), Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• lower part of group

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone

• "brackish to marine"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by N. & K. Wasada in 1979

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: Y. Hasegwa, M. Manabe, and Y. Azuma. 1986. Dinosaur fossils and tracks in Japan. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program 15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50309: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Megalosauridae - Megalosauridae
? Megalosauridae indet. Fitzinger 1843 dinosaur
"middle-sized carnivorous dinosaur"