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Publication(s)

• M. Matsukawa and I. Obata. 1985. Dinosaur footprints and other indentation in the Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation, Sebayashi, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 11(1):9-36
• M. Matsukawa and I. Obata. 1989. Interpretation of dinosaur footprints from the Lower Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation, Japan. Dinosaur Tracks and Traces
• M. Matsukawa, M. G. Lockley, and J. Li. 2006. Cretaceous terrestrial biotas of East Asia, with special reference to dinosaur-dominated ichnofaunas: towards a synthesis. Cretaceous Research 27(1):3-21
• M. Matsukawa, K. Shibata, and R. Kukihara, K. Koarai, M. G. Lockley. 2005. Review of Japanese dinosaur track localities: implications for ichnotaxonomy, paleogeography and stratigraphic correlation. Ichnos 12(3):201-222
• M. Matsukawa and I. Obata. 1994. Dinosaurs and sedimentary environments in the Japanese Cretaceous: a contribution to dinosaur facies in Asia based on molluscan palaeontology and stratigraphy. Cretaceous Research 15(1):101-125
• Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1997. Japanese dinosaurs. Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs
• M. G. Lockley, M. Matsukawa, and I. Obata. 1989. Dinosaur tracks and radial cracks: unusual footprint features. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 15(4):151-160
• Y. Hasegwa, M. Manabe, and Y. Azuma. 1986. Dinosaur fossils and tracks in Japan. First International Symposium on Dinosaur Tracks and Traces, Abstracts with Program
• Y. Azuma, T. Sugimori, and K. Yamada, T. Kojima, K.-i. Takeyama. 1992. Two dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group of Izumi Village, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Japan Sea Research Institute, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa 24:19-33
• Y. Tsukiji, Y. Sakai, and Y. Azuma. 2019. Ichnotaxonomic revision of dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Tetori Group, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 18:1-20
• H. Matsuoka, N. Kusuhashi, and T. Takada, T. Setogushi. 2002. A clue to the Neocomian vertebrate fauna: initial results from the Kuwajima "Kaseki-kabe" (Tetori Group) in Shiramine, Ishikawa, central Japan. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Series of Geology and Mineralogy 59(1):33-45
• Y. Hasegawa, M. Manabe, and S. Isaji, M. Ohkura, I. Shibata, I. Yamaguchi. 1995. Terminally resorbed iguanodontid teeth from the Neocomian Tetori Group, Ishikawa and Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Series C 21(1, 2):35-49
• S. Isaji, H. Okazaki, and R. Hirayama, H. Matsuoka, P. M. Barrett, T. Tsubamoto, M. Yamaguchi, I. Yamaguchi, T. Sakumoto. 2005. Depositional environments and taphonomy of the bone-bearing beds of the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History, Series A 3:123-133
• T. Ohashi and P. M. Barrett. 2009. A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation of Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):748-757
• Fukui Kenritsu Kyoryu Hakubutsukan. 2010. [Exhibit Guidebook of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum].
• S.-i. Sano and A. Yabe. 2017. Fauna and flora of Early Cretaceous Tetori Group in central Japan: the clues to revealing the evolution of Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem in Asia. Palaeoworld 26:253-267
• M. Takahashi, P. R. Crane, and H. Ando. 2001. Fossil Megaspores of Marsileales and Selaginellales from the Upper Coniacian to Lower Santonian (Upper Cretaceous) of the Tamagawa Formation (Kuji Group) in Northeastern Japan. International Journal of Plant Sciences 162(2):431-439
• R. Hirayama. 2025. Fossil Reptiles from the Kuji Group (Late Cretaceous) of Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Fossil Research 58(1/2):28-31
• Y. Azuma. 2003. Early Cretaceous vertebrate remains from Katsuyama city, Fukui prefecture, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 2:17-21
• Y. Azuma and P. J. Currie. 2000. A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 37:1735-1753
• Y. Kobayashi and Y. Azuma. 2003. A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):166-175
• P. J. Currie and Y. Azuma. 2006. New specimens, including a growth series, of Fukuiraptor (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Quarry of Japan. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1):173-193
• Y. Azuma and M. Shibata. 2008. New dinosaurs of the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui
• M. Shibata and M. Goto. 2008. Report of the 3rd Dinosaur Excavation Project in Katsuyama, Fukui, 2007. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 7:109-116
• Y. Azuma. 2002. Dinosaur remains from Katsuyama City, Fukui Prefecture. 2002 Annual Meeting, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 21-23, 2002, Katsuyama. Abstracts with Programs
• Y. Azuma and M. Shibata. 2010. Fukuititan nipponensis, a new titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(3):454-462
• H. Saegusa and Y. Tomida. 2011. Titanosauriform teeth from the Cretaceous of Japan. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 83(1):247-265
• L. Alcalá, E. Espílez, and L. Mampel, J. I. Kirkland, M. Ortiga, D. Rubio, A. González, D. Ayala, A. Cobos, R. Royo-Torres, F. Gascó, M. D. Pesquero. 2012. A new Lower Cretaceous vertebrate bonebed near Arino (Tereul, Aragon, Spain); found and managed in a joint collaboration between a mining company and a palaeontological park. Geoheritage 4:275-286
• S. Isaji and Y.T. D. Hasegawa. 1990. [Discovery of Nippononaia ryosekiana and stegosaurid spine from the Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group]. 139th Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 30-July 1, 1990
• Y. Azuma and Y. Tomida. 1995. Early Cretaceous dinosaur fauna of the Tetori Group in Japan. Sixth Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Short Papers
• M. Shibata and Y. Azuma. 2015. New basal hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Fukui, central Japan. Zootaxa 3914(4):421-440
• S. Suzuki, M. Shibata, and Y. Azuma, H. Yukawa, T. Sekiya, Y. Masaoka. 2015. Sedimentary environment of dinosaur fossil bearing successions of the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation, Tetori Group, Katsuyama City, Fukui, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 14:1-9
• T. Imai, Y. Azuma, and S. Kawabe, M. Shibata, K. Miyata, M. Wang, Z. Zhou. 2019. An unusual bird (Theropoda, Avialae) from the Early Cretaceous of Japan suggests complex evolutionary history of basal birds. Communications Biology 2(1):399:1-11
• S. Hattori and Y. Azuma. 2020. Spinosaurid teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group, Fukui, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 19:1-9
• S. Hattori, M. Shibata, and S. Kawabe, T. Imai, H. Nishi, Y. Azuma. 2023. New theropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan provides critical implications for the early evolution of ornithomimosaurs. Scientific Reports 13:13842:1-16
• O. Mihiko. 1990. [Discovery of dinosaur fossil from the Kanmon Group]. 139th Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, June 30-July 1, 1990
• Y. Okazaki. 1992. A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, northern Kyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11:87-90
• H. Hayakawa and K. Carpenter. 1996. First occurrence of nodosaurid ankylosaurs in Asia. Palaeontological Society of Japan, Abstracts. Miyamoto-cho, Mikasa, Hokkaido 71:98
• V. M. Arbour and P. J. Currie. 2016. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14(5):385-444
• M. Manabe, Y. Hasegawa, and Y. Azuma. 1989. Two new dinosaur footprints from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Japan. Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• R. E. Molnar, I. Obata, and M. Tanimoto, M. Matsukawa. 2009. A tooth of Fukuiraptor aff. F. kitadaniensis from the Lower Cretaceous Sebayashi Formation, Sanchu Cretaceous, Japan. Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Division of Natural Sciences 61:105-117
• D. J. Chure, M. Manabe, and M. Tanimoto, Y. Tomida. 1999. An unusual theropod tooth from the Mifune Group (Late Cenomanian to Early Turonian), Kumamoto, Japan. Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium, National Science Museum Monographs 15:291-296
• M. T. Carrano, R. B. J. Benson, and S. D. Sampson. 2012. The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10(2):211-300
• S. E. Evans, M. Manabe, and E. Cook, R. Hirayama, S. Isaji, C. J. Nicholas, D. Unwin, Y. Yabumoto. 1998. An Early Cretaceous assemblage from Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:183-186
• S. E. Evans and M. Manabe. 1999. Early Cretaceous lizards from the Okurodani Formation of Japan. Geobios 32(6):889-899
• P. M. Barrett, Y. Hasegawa, and M. Manabe, S. Isaji, H. Matsuoka. 2002. Sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Asia: taxonomic and biogeographical implications. Palaeontology 45(6):1197-1217
• M. Tamura, Y. Okazaki, and N. Ikegami. 1991. [Occurrence of carnosaurian and herbivorous dinosaurs from upper formation of Mifune Group, Japan]. Kumamoto Daigaku Kyōiku Gakubu kiyō. Shizen kagaku 40:31-45
• L. E. Zanno. 2010. A taxonomic and phylogenetic re-evaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Maniraptora). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 8(4):503-543
• N. Ikegami and Y. Tomida. 2005. A therizinosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Mifune Group in Kyushu, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3 (supp.)):73A
• M. G. Lockley and M. Matsukawa. 1998. Lower Cretaceous vertebrate tracksites of East Asia. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:135-142
• Y. Azuma and K.-i. Takeyama. 1991. Dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group, central Japan—research of dinosaurs from the Tetori Group (4). Bulletin of the Fukui Prefectural Museum 4:33-51
• M. Tanimoto. 1998. New find of a sauropod fossil from the Lower Cretaceous Matsuo Group of Toba, Mie Prefecture, southwest Japan. Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 14:201-204
• Y. Tomida and Y. Tsumura. 2006. A partial skeleton of titanosaurian sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Toba City, central Japan. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22(1):217-238
• P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, and R. N. Barnes, O. Mateus. 2013. Osteology of the Late Jurassic Portuguese sauropod dinosaur Lusotitan atalaiensis (Macronaria) and the evolutionary history of basal titanosauriforms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 168:98-206
• H. Matsuoka, S. Isaji, and Y. Hasegawa, I. Yamaguchi, T. Takada. 2001. A new dinosaur track locality in the Tetori Group of Mekko-dani ravine, Oguchi, Ishikawa, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 5:39-48
• M. Matsukawa, T. Hamuro, and T. Mizukami, S. Fujii. 1997. First trackway evidence of gregarious dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous Tetori Group of eastern Toyama prefecture, central Japan. Cretaceous Research 18:603-619
• M. J. Fujita, Y. Azuma, and M. Goto, Y. Tomida, S. Hayashi, Y. Arakawa. 2003. First ankylosaur footpritns in Japan and their significance. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3, suppl.):52A
• M. Fujita. 2008. Dinosaur tracks from the Tetori Group. International Dinosaur Symposium in Fukui 2008: Recent Progress of the Study on Asian Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments. Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Fukui
• M. Matsukawa, T. Hamuro, and S. Fuiji, K. Koarai. 2002. Dinosaur tracks from the eastern part of the Tetori Group in Toyama Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of Tokyo Gakugei University, Section IV 54:171-177
• J. Shin. 2002. [Oyamada District Kashima-cho, Report on Fossil Excavation]
• M. Manabe, Y. Hasegawa, and T. Takahashi. 2003. A hadrosaurid vertebra from the Ashizawa Formation, Futaba Group, Fukushima, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 7:7-10
• M. Goto. 1993. Dinosaur footprints from Ooyama Town, Toyama prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Toyama Science Museum 16:1-5
• M. Murakami, R. Hirayama, and Y. Hikida, H. Hirano. 2008. A theropod dinosaur (Saurischia: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous Yezo Group of Hokkaido, northern Japan. Paleontological Research 12(4):421-425
• Y. Kobayashi, R. Takasaki, and A. R. Fiorillo, T. Chinzorig, Y. Hikida. 2022. New therizinosaurid dinosaur from the marine Osoushinai Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Japan) provides insight for function and evolution of therizinosaur claws. Scientific Reports 12:7207:1-12
• Y. Hasegawa, E. Buffetaut, and M. Manabe, Y. Takakuwa. 2003. A possible spinosaurid tooth from the Sebayashi Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Gunma, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 7:1-5
• K. Muramoto. 1977. [Discovery of the fossil skull of a large reptile]. Kaseki No Tomo 16(12):2
• M. W. Caldwell, T. Konishi, and I. Obata, K. Muramoto. 2008. A new species of Taniwhasaurus (Mosasauridae, Tylosaurinae) from the Upper Santonian-Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):339-348
• M. Kunimitsu, K. Shikano, and M. Sugiyama, H. Hasegawa. 1990. [Discovery of dinosaur footprints from the Tetori Group in Gifu Prefecture]. Abstracts of the 1990 Annual Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan, Tokyo
• J. Shigeno, K. Fujita, and Y. Azuma, M. Goto, A. Kano, M. Jige, M. Shibata, T. Kawai. 2004. [Paleoenvironment of the Akaiwa Subgroup of the Tetori Group based on pedogenic sediments and sedimentary facies in the Kamiichi and Tateyama area, Toyama Prefecture]. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 3:1-22
• Y. Morozumi, T. Kamei, and M. Tashiro, N. Kikuchi, K. Ishida, Y. Azuma, H. Hashimoto, K.-i. Nakao. 1995. [A dinosaur tooth from the Lower Cretaceous Tatsukawa Formation in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan]. Bulletin of the Tokushima Prefectural Museum 5:1-9
• H. Saegusa, S. Tanaka, and T. Ikeda, T. Matsubara, H. Frutani, K. Handa. 2008. On the occurrence of sauropod and some associated vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, SW Japan. Journal of Fossil Research 41(1):2-12
• H. Saegusa, S. Tanaka, and T. Ikeda. 2010. [Preliminary observations on the dinosaur teeth from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group in Tamba City, Hyogo Prefecture and addtional notes on the pneumaticity of the postcranial skeleton of Tamba sauropod]. Journal of Fossil Research 42(2):52-65
• H. Saegusa and T. Ikeda. 2014. A new titanosauriform sauropod (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Hyogo, Japan. Zootaxa 3848(1):1-66
• K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and H. Saegusa, T. Ikeda, C. L. DeBuhr, F. Therrien. 2016. Dinosaur eggshell assemblage from Japan reveals unknown diversity of small theropods. Cretaceous Research 57:350-363
• K. Tanaka, D. K. Zelenitsky, and F. Therrien, T. Ikeda, K. Kubota, H. Saegusa, T. Tanaka, K. Ikuno. 2020. Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cretaceous Research 114:104519:1-14
• M. Tanimoto and C. Suzuki. 1997. [Sauropod teeth (cf. Nemegtosaurus sp.) from the Tamayama Formation (Upper Cretaceous, Santonian), Futaba Group of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, northeast Japan]. Research Reports IWAKI Natural History
• T. Ohashi, Y. Hasegawa, and T. Tsuihiji, M. Manabe, Y. Koda, M. Nemoto. 2011. Dinosaur fauna of the Coniacian Futaba Group, northeastern Japan. Proceedings of the 6th Symposium of IGCP 507 on Paleoclimates of the Cretaceous in Asia and Their Global Correlation
• Y. Takakuwa, K. Sato, and T. Kimura. 2008. [III. Paleontological study of the Yamanaka Group]. Gunma Museum of Natural History, Natural History Research Report 4:79-98
• R. Hirayama and T. Chitoku. 1996. Family Dermochelyidae (superfamily Chelonioidea) from the Upper Cretaceous of north Japan. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New series 184:597-622
• Y. Kobayashi, T. Nishimura, and R. Takasaki, K. Chiba, A. R. Fiorillo, K. Tanaka, T. Chinzorig, T. Sato, K. Sakurai. 2019. A new hadrosaurine (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the marine deposits of the Late Cretaceous Hakobuchi Formation, Yezo Group, Japan. Scientific Reports 9:12389
• R. Hirayama, S. Isaji, and T. Hibino. 2013. Kappachelys okurai gen. et sp. nov., a new stem soft-shelled turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Japan. Morphology and Evolution of Turtles
• N. Kusuhashi, Y. Tsutsumi, and H. Saegusa, K. Horie, T. Ikeda, K. Yokoyama, K. Shiraishi. 2013. A new Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal from the Sasayama Group, Hyogo, Japan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280
• T. Tanaka, K. Chiba, and T. Ikeda, M. J. Ryan. 2024. A new neoceratopsian (Ornithischia, Ceratopsia) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian), southwestern Japan. Papers in Palaeontology (e1587):1-30
• T. Tsuihiji, T. Komatsu, and M. Manabe, Y. Miyake, M. Aramaki, H. Sekiguchi. 2013. Theropod tooth from the Upper Cretaceous Himenoura Group in the Koshikijima Islands, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 17(1):39-46
• M. Manabe, T. Tsuijihi, and Y. Miyake, T. Komatsu. 2017. A possible ceratopsid tooth from the Upper Cretaceous of Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C 42:29-34
• K. Tanoue and Y. Okazaki. 2014. The first basal neoceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group in Kyushu, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 18(2):77-81
• M. Manabe. 1999. The early evolution of the Tyrannosauridae in Asia. Journal of Paleontology 73(6):1176-1178
• R. Hirayama, Y. Kobayashi, and T. Sonoda, K. Sasaki. 2010. Preliminary report of terrestrial vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Tamagawa Formation of the Kuji Group of Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Journal of Fossil Research 42(2):74-82
• R. Hirayama, T. Takisawa, and K. Sasaki, T. Sonoda, M. Yoshida, A. Takekawa, S. Mitsuzuka, Y. Kobayashi, T. Tsuihiji, R. Matsumoto, M. Kurosu, Y. Takakuwa, S. Miyata, Y. Tsutsumi. 2016. Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Tamagawa Formation (Turonian) of Kuji City, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Cretaceous Ecosystems and Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes in Asia and the Western Pacific. Short papers for the Fourth International Symposium of International Geoscience Programme, IGCP Project 608
• R. Hirayama, T. Tsuihiji, and H. Uno. 2019. Tyrannosauroid tooth from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of northern Japan. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Abstracts of Papers, 79th Annual Meeting
• Y. Azuma, X. Xu, and M. Shibata, S. Kawabe, K. Miyata, T. Imai. 2016. A bizarre theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Japan highlighting mosaic evolution among coelurosaurians. Scientific Reports 6:20478
• S. Hattori, S. Kawabe, and T. Imai, M. Shibata, K. Miyata, X. Xu, Y. Azuma. 2021. Osteology of Fukuivenator paradoxus: a bizarre maniraptoran theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Fukui, Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 20:1-82
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• R. Hirayama and S. Teppei. 2019. Fossil turtles from the Lower Cretaceous Tetori Group in the Kuzuryu area, Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan. Waseda Global Forum 16:31-49
• Y. Sakai, M. Manabe, and R. Matsumoto, Y. Yabumoto, R. Hiramaya. 2020. [Vertebrate fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Itsuki Formation of the Tetori Group in the Kuzuryu district, Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan]. Memoirs of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 19:105-112
• M. Shimada, Y. Noda, and S. Hayashi, Y. Azuma, A. Yabe, K. Terada. 2010. Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous dinosaur and bird footprints from the Tetori Group in Fukui City, Cukui Prefecture, central Japan. Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum 9:47-54
• H. Ueda, Y. Sakai, and M. Manabe, T. Tsuihiji, S. Isaji, M. Okura. 2022. Morphometric and cladistic analyses of a theropod tooth from the Itsuki Formation of the Tetori Group in the Kuzuryu District, Ono City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Paleontological Research 27(1):51-72
• J.-I. Tatehata, T. Mukunoki, and K. Tanoue. 2023. Description of a titanosauriform (Sauropoda, Dinosauria) cervical vertebra from the Lower Cretaceous Kanmon Group, southwestern Japan. Paleontological Research 27(3):350-358
• S. Hayashi, Y. Nakajima, and Y. Tanaka, B. T. Breeden III, Y. Kanazawa, C. Tsogtbaatar. 2024. A hadrosauroid vertebra from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group, Kagawa prefecture, Japan. Paleontological Research 28(4):442–451
• K. Kubota, Y. Kobayashi, and T. Ikeda. 2024. Early Cretaceous troodontine troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Ohyamashimo Formation of Japan reveals the early evolution of Troodontinae. Scientific Reports 14(16392):1-14