Haboro area: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Japan

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Taniwhasaurus mikasaensis (Caldwell et al. 2008)
original and current combination Yezosaurus mikasaensis
MCM.A600 (disarticulated skull elements including a parietal, left quadrate, left postorbitofrontal, jugal, ectopterygoid, coronoid, and possible left squamosal)
see common names

Geography
Country:Japan State/province:Hokkaido
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 141.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:49.0° North, 130.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:86.30000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Upper Yezo Formation:Haborogawa
Stratigraphy comments: Santonian-Campanian boundary interval
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandstone concretion eroded free of the surrounding strata
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: the inner-outer shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Taniwhasaurus mikasaensis referred material locality
Database number:115409
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion
Created:2011-09-01 21:20:53 Last modified:2011-09-01 07:28:16
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-01 21:20:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

37364. M. W. Caldwell, T. Konishi, I. Obata and K. Muramoto. 2008. A new species of Taniwhasaurus (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) from the Upper Santonian-Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):339-348 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]