{{short description|Geologic formation in Japan}} {{one source |date=April 2019}}

{{Infobox rockunit | name = Tanohata Formation | image = | caption = | type = Geological formation | period = Aptian | age = | prilithology = | otherlithology = | namedfor = | namedby = | region = | country = Japan | coordinates = | unitof = | subunits = | underlies = | overlies = | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = | map_caption = }}The '''Tanohata Formation''' is a Mesozoic geologic formation in northeastern Japan. Dinosaur remains diagnostic to the genus level are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.<ref name="dinosaurdistribution">Weishampel, et al. (2004). "Dinosaur distribution." Pp. 517-607.</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Earth sciences|Paleontology|Dinosaurs||}} * List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations ** List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera

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==References== * Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp.&nbsp;{{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}.

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Category:Geologic formations of Japan Category:Aptian Stage

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