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Hanoura Formation

• Type locality: Tokushima prefecture
• Coherent formation
• Early Cretaceous, Barremian

• Sedimentary facies: Marine
• Lithofacies: Sandstone, Sandy mudstone

• Upper limit: Unknown
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Northern Chichibu Belt)

• Distribution: Tokushima pref.
• Fossils: mixed Tethyan - North Tethyan
• Fossils (Ammonoids): Crioceratites (Paracrioceras) asiaticum, Pseudohaploceras japonicum

• Terabe and Matsuoka (2009) Jour. Geol. Soc. Japan, vol.115, no.3, pp.130-140 DOI