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Kuzuryu Group

Invalid synonym: Kuzuryu Subgroup

Formerly defined as a lower part of Tetori Group.

• Type locality: Kuzuryu river, Fukui prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Bathonian, Middle Jurassic - Oxfordian, Late Jurassic

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Depth of water: Shallow
• Lithofacies: Terrigenous clastic rocks

• Upper limit: Unconformity (Itoshiro Subgroup)

------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown

• Distribution: Kuzuryugawa river, Fukui pref.; Makido, Shokawa town, Takayama city, Gifu pref.

• Sakai et al. (2019) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.125, no.3, pp.255-260 DOI
• Sakai et al. (2018) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.124, no.3, pp.171-189 DOI
• Yamada (2017) Mem. Fukui Pref. Dinosaur Mus., vol.16, pp.55-70
• Kawada (1982) Geology of the Mikkamachi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 72p. (in Japanese with English abstract 6p.)
• Nozawa et al. (1975) Geology of the Hida-Furukawa District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 79p. (in Japanese with English abstract 9p.)
• Kawai et al. (1957) Arashimadake, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 110p. (in Japanese with English abstract 13p.)