Ryugase Group
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| name = Ryugase Group
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| type = Geological formation
| age = Late Santonian-
Early Campanian
~{{fossil range|85|72}}
| period = Campanian
| prilithology = Mudstone
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| region = Sakhalin Oblast
| country = {{RUS}}
| coordinates = {{coord|47.2|N|142.5|E|display=inline,title}}
| paleocoordinates = {{coord|51.9|N|130.0|E|display=inline}}
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| overlies = Yezo Group
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| extent = Sakhalin Island
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| lat_deg = 47.2
| lon_deg = 142.5
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The Ryugase Group is a geological formation on Sakhalin Island in far eastern Russia whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous.[https://paleobiodb.org/classic/displayCollResults?collection_no=38138 Kawakami Colliery, Sakhalin] at Fossilworks.org
Vertebrate paleofauna
- Nipponosaurus sachalinensis - "Partial skull and associated postcrania, juvenile.""Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442. Probably actually from the Yezo Group.
See also
References
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= Bibliography =
- {{citation |last1=Weishampel |first1=David B. |author2-link=Peter Dodson |last2=Dodson |first2=Peter |author3-link=Halszka Osmólska |last3=Osmólska |first3=Halszka |year=2004 |title=The Dinosauria, 2nd edition |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vtZFDb_iw40C |publisher=Berkeley: University of California Press |pages=1–880 |accessdate=2019-02-21 |isbn=0-520-24209-2 |author1-link=David B. Weishampel }}
Category:Geologic groups of Asia
Category:Geologic formations of Russia
Category:Upper Cretaceous Series of Asia
Category:Shallow marine deposits
Category:Paleontology in Russia
Category:Geography of Sakhalin Oblast
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