ammonites
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

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