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Sengoku Formation

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Short description: 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

  • Adocus sengokuensis

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.

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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