Sengoku Formation

Geologic formation in Japan
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

  • Wakinosaurus satoi - "Incomplete tooth."[2] - (Possible carcharodontosaurid)
  • Adocus sengokuensis

See also

  • Earth sciences portal
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  • Dinosaurs portal

Footnotes

  1. ^ Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.
  2. ^ "Table 4.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 78.

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.


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