Mifune Group

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Mifune Group
Stratigraphic range: Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian
Type Geological formation
Sub-units Jobu Formation, Kabu Formation, Mihune Formation
Overlies Unconformity with metamorphic rocks and Permian Mizukoshi Formation
ThicknessOver 1500 metres
Location
Country Japan

The Mifune Group or Mihune Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Japan. It contains dinosaur fossils. [1]

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Fossils

Fossils found in the unit include indeterminate dinosaur remains, the turtles Adocus , Shachemys , and Tienfucheloides , and the pterosaur Nipponopterus . [2] [1] [3]

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Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press pp.517-607 ISBN   0-520-24209-2.
  2. ↑ Hirayama, Ren (1998). Fossil turtles from the Mifune Group (Late Cretaceous) of Kumamoto Prefecture, Western Japan (Thesis).
  3. ↑ Zhou, Xuanyu; Ikegami, Naoki; Pêgas, Rodrigo V.; Yoshinaga, Toru; Sato, Takahiro; Mukunoki, Toshifumi; Otani, Jun; Kobayashi, Yoshitsugu (2024-11-16). "Reassessment of an azhdarchid pterosaur specimen from the Mifune Group, Upper Cretaceous of Japan" . Cretaceous Research : 106046. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106046. ISSN   0195-6671.


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