90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan’s Coast
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A team of paleontologists from Tsukuba University confirmed that a fossil found near Iwaki, in Fukushima Prefecture, belongs to one of the smallest iguanodontios dinosaurs identified in Japan. Interestingly, the bone remained unanalysed in depth for more than two decades before the team resumed its study ... Continue reading "Paleontologists confirm that a fossil unearthed more than 20 years ago belongs to one of the smallest iguanodon dinosaurs…
A breastbone fragment from Fukushima, known since 1999, proves to be the rest of a comparatively small herbivorous dinosaur. The animal was probably about three meters long. Together with significantly larger finds from Cretaceous coastal deposits, this indicates that such herbivores lived there very different body sizes. Tsukuba (Japan). Iguanodon animal were a widespread group of plant-eating dinosaurs that [...] The post 90 million year-old f…
A dinosaur fossil of approximately 90 million years old was discovered in the city of Iwaki, in the province of Fukushima, Japan. The analysis of the specimen, belonging to the Iguanodontian group, reveals new information about the diversity of dinosaurs that inhabited coastal ecosystems during the Cretaceous period. Fossil discovery in Fukushima The fossil was found in 1999 in the dependencies of the Iwaki City Ammonite Center, located in the A…
90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan’s Coast
A small iguanodontian fossil from Japan adds evidence that Late Cretaceous coastal ecosystems supported dinosaurs of widely different body sizes. Iguanodontians were widespread plant-eating dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous. Their movement between Asia, North America, and Europe helped shape their diversification across Laurasia, making fossils from Japan especially useful [...]
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