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Matsuo - Kamo, Toba City, Mie Prefecture, Japan

GroupMatsuo
FormationKamo
Age:140 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
IntervalValanginian - Barremian
Lithologysandstone/siltstone
Number of Collections1
Number of Occurrences4

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
ArashimaToba City, Mie Prefecture, JapanMatsuo - Kamo

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Caturus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Actinopterygii : Amiiformes : Caturidae : Caturus139.8 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Heteroptychodus sp.
genus
6Animalia : Chordata : Chondrichthyes : Hybodontiformes : Hybodontidae : Heteroptychodus139.8 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Iguanodontidae
family
5Animalia : Chordata : Ornithischia : Iguanodontidae139.8 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous
Somphospondyli
unranked clade
99Animalia : Chordata : Saurischia : Somphospondyli139.8 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

References

Tanimoto M., Tanaka S. (1998) [Heteroptychodus sp. (Chondrichthyes) from the Lower Cretaceou Matsuo Group of Arashima, Toba City, Mie Prefecture, southwest Japan], Chigakukenkyu 47 1, 37-40
Tanimoto M. (1998) New find of a sauropod fossil from the Lower Cretaceous Matsuo Group of Toba, Mie Prefecture, southwest Japan, Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14, 201-204
Tomida Y., Tsumura Y. (2006) A partial skeleton of titanosaurian sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Toba City, central Japan, Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22 1, 217-238
Mannion P. D., Upchurch P., et al (2013) Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168, 98-206
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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