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List of fossils in Wakayama prefecture

A list of fossils reported from Wakayama prefecture, Kinki region, Honshu island, Japan.

Photographs of outcrops and fossils in Wakayama prefecture

Silurian (443.4-419.2 Ma)

Corals

Schedohalysites kitakamiensis

Permian (298.9-252.17 Ma)

Gastropods

Corals

Crinoids

Fusulinids

Millerella sp.

Neoschwagerina sp.

Parafusulina sp.

Yabeina sp.

Jurassic (201.3-145.0 Ma)

Bivalves

Trigonia sp.

Echinoids

Radiolarians

Cretaceous (145.0-66.0 Ma)

Reptiles

Mosasaurus sp.

Sharks, (Teeth)

Ammonoids

Bivalves

Costocyrena sp.

family Cyrenidae

Inoceramus sp.

Isodomella sp.

Magallana gigas, Pacific oyster

family Pharidae

Gastropods

family Viviparidae, River snail

Echinoids

Ananchytes ovatus => Echinocorys ovatus

Paraheteraster macroholcus

Cycads

order Bennettitales

Ptilophyllum pecten

Ferns

Cladophlebis sp.

Trace fossils

Paleodictyon majus

Eocene (56.0-39.0 Ma)

Creeping marks

Pipe rocks