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Kanaya Formation

• Coherent formation
• Late Cretaceous, Cenomanian - Turonian

• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Shale, Interbedded sandstone and shale

• Thickness: 100 m or thicker
• Upper limit: Conformity (Goryo Formation)
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Kurosegawa Belt)

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

• Distribution: Nyunozu - Tokuda, Aridagawa city, Arida county, Wakayama pref.
• Fossils: Romaniceras sp. (corrected from Sharpericeros aff. naviculare), Inoceramus sp.

• Yao (2012) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.118, Supplement, pp.90-106 DOI
• Hirayama and Tanaka (1956) Kainan, Explanatory Text of the Geological Map of Japan, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 62p. (in Japanese with English abstract 12p.)