The Akaiwa Formation () is an Early Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Barremian) geologic formation in central Honshu, Japan. Indeterminate ornithischian fossils are known from the formation. Fossil ornithopod tracks have been reported from the formation. As well as the turtle Kappachelys

Fossil content

The following fossils have been reported from the formation: Osteichthyes indet. - 'fish scales' Reptiles Turtles Kappachelys okurai Crocodylomorpha indet. - isolated teeth of small crocodiles ?Euornithopoda indet. Neochoristodera indet. - a nearly complete right premaxilla Ornithopoda indet. - isolated teeth of small ornithopods ?Theropoda indet.

Akaiwa Formation

Ichnofossils

Ornithischia indet. - tracks

See also

List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations

List of stratigraphic units with indeterminate dinosaur fossils

List of stratigraphic units with ornithischian tracks

Ornithopod tracks

References

Bibliography

Geologic formations of Japan

Lower Cretaceous Series of Asia

Barremian Stage

Hauterivian Stage

Sandstone formations

Conglomerate formations

Fluvial deposits

Paludal deposits

Ichnofossiliferous formations

Paleontology in Japan

Akaiwa Formation