Tamayama Formation

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Tamayama Formation
Stratigraphic range: Santonian
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Type Geological formation
Unit of Futaba Group
Sub-unitsKohisagawa Member, Irimaza Member
Underlies Unconformity with the Eocene Iwaki Formation
Overlies Kasamatsu Formation
Thickness~ 150 metres
Lithology
Primary Sandstone
Other Siltstone
Location
Regionnorthern Honshu
CountryFlag of Japan.svg  Japan

The Tamayama Formation is a Santonian geologic formation in Japan. Dinosaur remains not referrable to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [1] The lower and middle part of the formation consists of braided river sandstone, while the upper portion consists of upper shoreface to inner shelf sandstone. [2] Fossil plants are known from the formation, along with a species of Inoceramus [3]

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Footnotes

  1. Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. Ando, Hisao; Seishi, Masao; Oshima, Mitsuharu; Matsumaru, Tetsuya (1995). "Fluvial-Shallow Marine Depositional Systems of the Futaba Group (Upper Cretaceous). Depositional facies and sequences". Journal of Geography (Chigaku Zasshi). 104 (2): 284–303. doi: 10.5026/jgeography.104.284 . ISSN   0022-135X.
  3. Takahashi, Masamichi; Friis, Else Marie; Crane, Peter R. (March 2007). "Fossil Seeds of Nymphaeales from the Tamayama Formation (Futaba Group), Late Cretaceous (Early Santonian) of Northeastern Honshu, Japan". International Journal of Plant Sciences. 168 (3): 341–350. doi:10.1086/510414. ISSN   1058-5893.

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