Research Support Office, Okayama University of Science 
Faculty of Biosphere - Geosphere Science, Department of Dinosaur Paleontology
- Assistant professor
- Ryuji TAKASAKI
- Research Field
Vertebrate paleontology
- Keyword(s)
Dinosauria
- Research theme
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- Dinosaur evolution
Outline of research activities
Fieldworks in and out of Japan and describing dinosaur fossils. Mainly working on hadrosaurids, plant-eating dinosaurs that thrived during the late Cretaceous. Also reconstructing dinosaur soft-tissue anatomy through osteological and non-osteological fossils.
Fieldworks:
Mongolia, USA, Canada
Named species:
Kamuysaurus japonicus, Yamatosaurus izanagii, Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus, Ravjaa ishiii
- Desired cooperation
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- Animal experiment
- Sedimentology, chronology