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Dear TFF friends, It's been a while since I visited our fossil lovers community. I hope you're all doing well. Few months ago, I went to my favorite late cretaceous spot in Japan. Himenoura formation is a marine formation from the late Cretaceous (Santonian) where ammonites, bivalves, shark teeth, and crustaceans can be found. Last time I went there, I found the following fossil. In is quite small, and at first glance I thought it was some kind of bone fragment or small tooth's enamel negative but after observing it under microscope, I was able t
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I saw this fossil for sale in Colorado labeled as a Archaeopteryx (second picture) by it it looks nothing like an Archaeopteryx. I google image searched the picture and the only look alike was on a website for Japanese travel photos (first picture) and I believe it was at a dinosaur museum in Japan. I'll put both pictures below! Please help me identify
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You do not see a lot described from Japan so its nice to see this one. . Discovered in the marine Maastrichtian deposits of the Kitaama Formation. Yamatosaurus izanagii https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-87719-5#disqus_thread
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Stabilized with Butvar B-76.
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Fossilized Fish Could Supply Centuries Worth Of Rare Earth Elements
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Hello, I see these shark teeth from an auction. I don't know if they are fossilized or come from a recent animal. Unfortunately the photos are not very good. I still wonder what kind of shark these teeth could have come from. My first idea was Megamouth shark, but teeth of these are of course very rare. On the other hand, it might fit because the teeth are found on Japan's coast and Megamouth sharks are also found there (if there are recent species). Can you help me with the ID? I'm really not quite sure, I've never seen teeth like this before. Thank you and best re
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Hello Fossil Friends, Saw this in the news today so thought I’d share: ******************** World's smallest dinosaur egg fossil discovered in Japan Source Link A team of researchers said Tuesday it has discovered the world's smallest dinosaur egg fossil, measuring about 4.5 centimeters by 2 cm, in western Japan. The fossil of the egg, estimated to have weighed only about 10 grams more than 100 million years ago, was found in a stratum dating back to the Early Cretaceous period in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, according to the
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Fossilized fish could indicate rich deposits of valuable rare-earth metals by University of Tokyo PhysOrg, June 18. 2020 https://phys.org/news/2020-06-fossilized-fish-rich-deposits-valuable.html Fish fossils become buried treasure. Fossilized fish could indicate rich deposits of valuable rare-earth metals by University of Tokyo, June 18. 2020 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uot-ffb061720.php The paper is: Junichiro Ohta, Kazutaka Yasukawa, Tatsuo Nozaki, Yutaro Takaya, Kazuhide Mimura, Koichiro Fuj
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From the album: Misc. Cenozoic Specimens
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Two new papers on fossil Balaenidae are available online: Guillaume Duboys de Lavigerie, Mark Bosselaers, Stijn Goolaerts, Travis Park, Olivier Lambert & Felix G. Marx (2020) New Pliocene right whale from Belgium informs balaenid phylogeny and function. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2020.1746422 Yoshihiro Tanaka; Hitoshi Furusawa; Masaichi Kimura (2020). A new member of fossil balaenid (Mysticeti, Cetacea) from the early Pliocene of Hokkaido, Japan. Royal Society Open Science. 7 (4): Article ID 192182. doi:10.1098/rsos.192182.
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Beaked whale skeleton unearthed from Nagano riverbed (Japan)
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Full fossil of beaked whale unearthed from Nagano riverbed By Hiromu Tsuchiya, Asahi Shimbun, April 8, 2020 http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13246254 Yours, Paul H.- 1 reply
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New age called the Chibanian named after a site in Japan that records a magnetic pole reversal. This covers a time from 770,000 to 126,000 years ago. Now I have to edit my geologic timeline! https://www.livescience.com/amp/new-geologic-age-chibanian.html
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From now on, I will introduce the fossils of Hokkaido here.
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New fossil bird from Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry, Fukui, Japan (open access paper)
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Fossil found in Fukui identified as new primitive bird species By Naoki Hirano, The Ashi Shimbun, December 4, 2019 http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201912040008.html Science News http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/fukuipteryx-prima-07808.html The open access paper is: Imai, T., Azuma, Y., Kawabe, S., Shibata, M., Miyata, K., Wang, M. and Zhou, Z., 2019. An unusual bird (Theropoda, Avialae) from the Early Cretaceous of Japan suggests complex evolutionary history of basal birds. Communications biology, 2(1), pp.1-11.- 2 replies
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A news article about the first Early Cretaceous avialan from Japan is available at the following link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/newly-discovered-fossil-bird-fills-gap-between-dinosaurs-and-modern-fliers-180973551/ Fukuipteryx is the first Early Cretaceous non-ornithothoracine avialan to be described from an Asian locality outside China or Mongolia. Since Fukuipteryx has a pygostyle and is recovered as basal to Jeholornis, it is unclear whether some non-pygostylian birds had a pygostyle. Link for original description of Fukuipteryx:
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https://phys.org/news/2019-09-hadrosaur-japan-dinosaur-diversity.html https://www.brightsurf.com/news/article/090519491504/a-new-duck-billed-dinosaur-kamuysaurus-japonicus-identified.html
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New papers recording new occurrences of fossil Monodontidae are available online: Hiroto Ichishima; Hitoshi Furusawa; Makino Tachibana; Masaichi Kimura (2018). First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north‐western Pacific Ocean. Papers in Palaeontology. Online edition. doi:10.1002/spp2.1244. (describes Haborodelphis japonicus) Pesci et al. (2018). First record of Monodontidae (Cetacea, Odontoceti) in the Mediterranean Basin from the Pliocene sands of Arcille (Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy). Fossilia, Volume 2018: 37-39.
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Does anyone have a copy of this Japanese paper? M. Murata. 1969. Molluscan fauna of the Toyoma Formation (Late Permian). Saito Ho-on Kai Museum of Natural History Research Bulletin 38:1-22 http://fossilworks.org/?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=194381 I am trying to identify a Euphemitopsis gastropod. I need any photos and descriptions of Euphemitopsis kitakamiensis. Thanks for you help, John @David in Japan
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Last weekend was almost surreal; I've always been looking to go hunting for ammonites at some point, but the opportunity finally arose while I visited Hokkaido, Japan last week. Ammonites from Hokkaido have always been captivating; they definitely represent some of the best the Asian continent has to offer, and are also known to produce the biggest in the continent. In the far north of Hokkaido, iridescent ammonites could be found, while in the central region, heteromorphs are more common. In very rare occasions across the island, titanic ammonites are lifted out of the streams.
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Few month ago, an ammonite hunter from Hokkaido came to Mifune Dinosaur Museum in kumamoto prefecture to exhibit part of his collection. I had the occasion to take picture of his collection and as I promised on an other thread to put some picture of it, I created this post. I hope you will enjoy the pictures. From left to right: Jimboiceras sp., big Sharpeiceras frag, Anagaudryceras sp., Anapachydiscus sp., Mesopuzonia sp., Eupachydiscus sp. From left to right: Eupachydiscus sp., Desmoceras sp., Damesites sp., Hauericeras sp., Kitchin
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Small news from Japan: yesterday, Pr Kobayashi presented at the japanese paleontological society, his work on an hadrosaurid dinosaur found few years ago in hokkaido and nicknamed Mukawa-ryu. According to him, it would be a new species. The 8th new dinosaur species found in Japan. Name will be released soon with the publication. http://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/AJ201906190084.html
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Hi TFF friends, how are you? I would like to have your opinion concerning the following fossil. It's a bone I found a while ago in the Himenoura formation, Santonian (Kumamoto Japan) and I forgot until I decided to clean my drawers. It has a quite distinctive shape and make me think to a sea turtle bone, a paddle or an ulna maybe. What kind of bone do you think it is? Any ID? I am not looking for the ID, I just would like to know what kind of bone it is.
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Does anyone have a copy of the paper "Cetotheres from the early Middle Miocene Bihoku group inShobara District, Hiroshima prefecture, West Japan"? I know the paper is too big to upload, but I wanted sections of the paper that describe Hibacetus, Parietobalaena yamaokai, and Diorocetus shobarensis because no one has had the chance to place Hibacetus in a phylogenetic context.
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TFF friends, How are you? It's been a while i post here although i still read almost daily posts on the forum. Last month on the 30 and the 31th, i had the opportunity to make a 2 days field trip to the yamaguchi prefecture with the association of the Goshoura Cretaceous Museum's friends. We spend 2 days there discovering the local geology and history with paleontologists friends. Let me share with you this experience. First day. We left kumamoto at 7 in the morning and drove for about 3 hous to
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Hi guys, how are you? Lately I saw, that new members from Japan joined us and I'd like to say that it is a rejoying news. Unfortunately, I also noticed that those members tend to disappear really quickly or to be shy (and or busy which is 100% understandable and logic if you work and live in Japan). As we are a very small community in Japan, I would like to make a kind of census to know who is still active, where do you live (your prefecture only is enough) and why not what you are collecting here in Japan. This kind of census would also be helpful to put in
