DINOSAURS FROM JAPAN
Dinosaur fossils of Japan are reviewed and conservative interpretations are made in this study. Since the first discovery of a Japanese dinosaur in 1978, the number of dinosaur discoveries in Japan has been increased rapidly. No dinosaur body fossils have been found that are older than the Cretaceous. Most Japanese dinosaur fossils are fragmentary but some are well studied. The Lower Cretaceous sediments of Japan have yielded a titanosauriform sauropod, five groups of non-avian theropods (carnosaur, spinosaurid, tyrannosaurid, dromaeosaurid, and a possible oviraptorosaur) and two ornithopods (basal iguanodontian and non-hadrosaurid iguanodontoid). The Upper Cretaceous deposits have produced five non- avian theropods (carnosaur, tyrannosaurid, ornithomimosaur, therizinosaurid, and dromaeosaurid) and two ornithischians (hadrosaurid and ankylosaur). These are the minimum number of dinosaur taxa from Japan, and further studies may add more taxa.
Yoshitsugu Kobayashi Makoto Manabe Naoki Ikegami Yukimitsu Tomida Hiroshi Hayakawa
Hokkaido University Museum, Hokkaido University, N10-W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0810, Japan National Science Museum, 3-23-1 Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo 169-0073, Japan Mifune Dinosaur Museum, 995-3 Mifune, Mifune, Kamimashiki,Kumamoto 861-3207, Japan Deceased, late of the Kreide Institute of Paleontology, 334 Tomatsumidori, Mikasa, Hokkaido 068-2132
国际会议
2005·河源国际恐龙学术研讨会(2005 Heyuan International Dinosaur Symposium)
广东河源
英文
87-102
2005-04-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）