Tochikubo Formation

The Tochikubo Formation is a Jurassic geologic formation in northern Honshu, Japan, dating to the Oxfordian stage of the Late Jurassic. Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation.Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607. As well as the bennettitaleans Kimuriella and Ohaniella.

Fossil content

Plants Plants of the Tochikubo FormationGenusSpeciesLocationStratigraphic positionMaterialNotesImage Kimuriella K. densifolia Fukushima Oxfordian A williamsoniacean bennettitalean Encephalartites E. nipponensis Fukushima Oxforian A cycad Nilssoniocladus N. japonicus Fukushima Oxfordian A nilssoniacean cyclad N. tairae Ohaniella O. ptilofolia Fukushima Oxfordian A williamsoniacean bennettitalean

See also

List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks Ornithopod tracks

Footnotes

References Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. .