Kitadani Formation

Kitadani Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous
Type Geological formation
Location
Region Asia
Country  Japan

The Kitadani Formation is a geological formation in Fukui, Japan whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Vertebrate paleofauna

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Weishampel, David B; et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution (Early Cretaceous, Asia)." In: Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 563-570. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
  2. "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 74.
  3. Azuma, Y., Xu X., Shibata, M., Kawabe, S., Miyata, K., and Imai, T. 2016. "A bizarre theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Japan highlighting mosaic evolution among coelurosaurians." Scientific Reports, 6(20478). doi:10.1038/srep20478
  4. "Table 19.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 415.
  5. Shibaba, Masateru; Azuma, Yoichi (2015). "New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan." (PDF). Zootaxa. 3914: 421. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3914.4.3.|
  6. Imai, Takuya; Azuma, Yoichi (2015). "The oldest known avian eggshells, Plagioolithus fukuiensis, from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Barremian) Kitadani Formation, Fukui, Japan". Historical Biology. 27 (8): 1090–1097. doi:10.1080/08912963.2014.934232.
  7. T. Tsubamoto, G. W. Rougier, S. Isaji, M. Manabe, and A. M. Forasiepi. 2004. New Early Cretaceous spalacotheriid "symmetrodont" mammal from Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(3):329-346


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