A dermochelyid sea turtle from the upper cretaceous (Late Campanian) Izumi Group of Shionoe, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Western Japan

Ren Hirayama; Akira Fujii; Keiichi Takahashi

A dermochelyid sea turtle from the upper cretaceous (Late Campanian) Izumi Group of Shionoe, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Western Japan

Ren Hirayama^*, Akira Fujii, Keiichi Takahashi

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School of International Liberal Studies

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Abstract

A partial skeleton of Mesodermochelys undulatus Hirayama and Chitoku, 1996 (Testudines: Chelonioidea: Dermochelyidae), with carapace estimated as 1.3 m long, was collected from the Late Cretaceous (early Late Campanian) Izumi Group at Shionoe, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Western Japan. This occurrence supports the presence of highly localized s a turtle fauna dominated by Mesodermochelys in the sea adjacent to Japan during the Late Cretaceous.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	17-20
Number of pages	4
Journal	Fossils
Issue number	80
Publication status	Published - 2006 Sept 1

Keywords

Cretaceous
Izumi Group
Kagawa Prefecture
Mesodermochelys

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Palaeontology

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A dermochelyid sea turtle from the upper cretaceous (Late Campanian) Izumi Group of Shionoe, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Western Japan

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