Research groups such as the Fukushima Prefectural Museum have announced that they have discovered a fossil of a small herbivorous dinosaur bone that is rare in Japan in Fukushima Prefecture, and it is said that it is a result showing that there was a rich ecosystem at that time.
Research groups such as the Fukushima Prefectural Museum investigated fossils that were excavated from the stratum in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture about 40 years ago and stored in a warehouse. I found a fossil of bone.
A detailed analysis revealed that it was a fossil of the foot bone of a small herbivorous dinosaur, which is rare in Japan.
Many of the fossils of herbivorous dinosaurs found in Japan so far are relatively large, and the research group says that it is possible that various dinosaurs lived in the area where the Japanese archipelago was at that time. is.
Junki Yoshida, curator of the Fukushima Prefectural Museum, said, "It is possible that there was a rich ecosystem such as plants that small herbivorous dinosaurs feed on and carnivorous dinosaurs that feed on them."