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Kitadani Formation
Invalid synonym: Myodani Formation (Local name in Shiramine region, Ishikawa pref.)
- Type locality: Sugiyama river, Kitadani village, Katsuyama city, Fukui prefecture
- Coherent formation
- Early Cretaceous, late Barremian - early Aptian (Bivalves)
- Sedimentary facies: Terrestrial
- Lithofacies: Mudstone-dominant interbedded sandstone and mudstone, Sandstone, Conglomerate
------ Conformity, ~~~~~~ Unconformity, ~~~--- Local unconformity, '''/,, Interfingered, :::::: Fault, /--/-- Thrust, +__+__ Ground surface, ?--?-- Unknown
- Distribution: Shiromine, Ishikawa pref. - Takinami river, Katsuyama city, Fukui pref.
- Distribution: Akadani river - Nishiyama - Otadani river - Myodani river, Hakusan city, Ishikawa pref.; Sugiyama river - Kougo - Kinehashi - Tani - Takinami river, Katsuyama city, Fukui pref.
- Fossils: Gastropods, Stoneworts
- Fossils (Bivalves): Plicatounio naktongensis, Nagdongia soni, Trigonioides tetoriensis, Nippononaia ryosekiana, Nippononaia tetoriensis, Pseudohyria matsumotoi
- Fossils (Kitadani flora, Tamodani flora): Equisetites sp., Adiantopteris sp., Cladophlebis exiliformis, Cladophlebis spp., Coniopteris sp., Eboracia sp., Gleichenites nipponensis, Marsileaceae? gen. et sp. indet, Onychiopsis elongata, Ruffordia goepperti, Sphenopteris sp., Ctenozamites sp., Nilssonia spp., Dictyozamites kawasakii, Pelourdea? sp., Ptilophyllum spp., Zamites sp., Brachyphyllum obesum, Brachyphyllum sp., Elatocladus cf. manchurica, Elatocladus spp., Pagiophyllum sp., Pityophyllum sp., Podocarpites sp., Podozamites lanceolatus, Taeniopteris vittata
- 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