Earth:Sengoku Formation

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Sengoku Formation
Stratigraphic range: Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Barremian)
TypeGeological formation
Unit ofWakino Subgroup of the Kwanmon Group
Location
RegionKyushu
Country Japan

The Sengoku Formation is an Early Cretaceous geologic formation. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.[1]

Paleofauna

  • Adocus sengokuensis (ja)[3]

See also

  • List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
    • List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.
  3. Teppei Sonoda; Ren Hirayama; Yoshihiko Okazaki; Hisao Ando (2015). "A New Species of the Genus Adocus (Adocidae, Testudines) from the Lower Cretaceous of Southwest Japan". Paleontological Research 19 (1): 26–32. doi:10.2517/2014PR026. 

References

  • Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.