A carnivorous dinosaur tooth fossil was discovered in Ohyama-machi Town. First case in Toyama Prefecture [25-year ago today]

 

Dr. Yo’ichi Azuma of the Fukui Prefecture Cultural Affairs Division confirmed the fossil discovered on June 16 in Ohyama-machi Town, Toyama Prefecture, as a tooth fossil of a bipedal carnivorous dinosaur by the 23rd.

 

When the Ohyama-machi Town Education Board staff were investigating the groundwater treatment of a giant footprint fossil discovered in 1995, they found the exposed tooth fossil.

 

As a result of the examination, the fossil was evaluated as a body fossil.

 

It is the fourth case in Japan following Ishikawa, Fukui, and Mie, in which a body fossil was found on the same site as a footprint fossil.

Q. What kind of fossil was found?

The fossil was a 23 mm long and 13 mm broad jagged sawtooth in good condition. Based on the width of the tooth, it is estimated to be the tooth of a medium-sized theropod that lived in the Early Cretaceous period.

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