Research field (2):
Solid earth science
, Biogeoscience
Research theme for competitive and other funds (9):
2020 - 2025 Mammalian faunal transition in Asia during the Early Cretaceous: The rise of eutherians and the establishment of the 'Late Cretaceous-type' fauna
2016 - 2019 Mammalian faunal transition with the early diversification of eutherians in the Early Cretaceous Asia
2014 - 2017 アジア地域の霊長類相の成立に関する古生物学的研究
2012 - 2014 Dynamique de la biodiversité et climats terrestres au Crétacé inférieur d'Asie de l'Est
2012 - 2014 Mammalian faunal transition in Asia during the Cretaceous: exploring the timing of the first diversification of eutherians
2010 - 2011 Fundamental study on paleobiogeography of Early Cretaceous mammals
2008 - 2010 A study on dinosaur fossils from the Sasayama Group
2007 - 2009 Study on Early Cretaceous mammals from Fuxin, Liaoning Province
2008 - 2008 Mammalian fossil assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous part of the Tetori Group
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Papers (37):
Takashi Sano, Kenichiro Tani, Shigekazu Yoneda, Hla Min, Thaung Htike, Zin Maung Maung Thein, Osamu Ishizuka, Nao Kusuhashi, Reiko T. Kono, Masanaru Takai, et al. Petrogenesis of isotopically enriched Quaternary magma with adakitic affinity associated with subduction of old lithosphere beneath central Myanmar. Scientific Reports. 2022. 12. 1
Sohda, K, Shimooka, K, Tani, K, Kusuhashi, N, Saito, S. The origin of igneous rock gravels of the Miocene Myojin Formation (Kuma Group), northwestern Shikoku. The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 2021. 127. 9. 563-574
Masaya Iijima, Masanaru Takai, Yuichiro Nishioka, Thaung-Htike, Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein, Naoko Egi, Nao Kusuhashi, Takehisa Tsubamoto, Reiko T. Kono, Ren Hirayama. Taxonomic overview of Neogene crocodylians in Myanmar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 2021. 40. 6. e1879100-e1879100
Masanaru Takai, Khin Nyo, Reiko T. Kono, Thaung Htike, Nao Kusuhashi, Zin Maung, Maung Thein. New hominoid mandible from the early Late Miocene Irrawaddy Formation in Tebingan area, central Myanmar. Anthropological Science. 2021. 129. 1. 87-98
Murakami, M, Kusuhashi, N, Yasui, K. The mode of eruption of pharyngeal teeth in some scarid fishes (Labroidei, Perciformes). Science Report of the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History. 2018. 28. 27-36
Kusuhashi, N, Murakami, M, Yasui, K. The deformed pelvic girdle of a knobsnout parrotfish (Scarus ovifrons) lacking the right pelvic fin. Science Report of the Toyohashi Museum of Natural History. 2018. 28. 37-45
Nara, M, Komatsu, T, Kusuhashi, N, Tsuihiji, T, Manabe, M, Nguyen, H. H, Doan, H. D, Nguyen, H. B, Nguyen, M. T. The first record of the trace fossil Scoyenia gracilis White from Cretaceous non-marine deposits of northwest Vietnam. Proceedings of the 2nd National Scientific Conference of Vietnam Natural Museum System. 2016. 216-222
Kusuhashi, N, Tsubamoto, T. Japanese oldest mammalian fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation. Research Report on Fossils from the Kuwajima Kaseki-kabe Site. 2010. 43-48
Matsuoka, H, Kusuhashi, N. Early Cretaceous tritylodontid fossils from the Kuwajima Formation. Research Report on Fossils from the Kuwajima Kaseki-kabe Site. 2010. 37-42
Stratigraphy of the Eocene Hiwadatoge Formation, Ehime, SW Japan
(124th Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of Japan 2017)
Reinvestigation of an Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal Endotherium niinomii
(4th International Symposium of the IGCP 608, Cretaceous Ecosystems and Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes in Asia and the Western Pacific 2016)
Reinvestigation of an Early Cretaceous eutherian mammal Endotherium niinomii
(165th Regular Meeting of the Palaeontological Society of Japan 2016)
Early Cretaceous "triconodont" mammals from the Kuwajima Formation (Tetori Group), Ishikawa, central Japan
(12th Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems 2015)
A mammal jaw from the Upper Cretaceous Ashizawa Formation (Futaba Group), Fukushima, northeastern Japan
(2nd International Symposium of the IGCP 608, Cretaceous Ecosystems and Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes in Asia and the Western Pacific 2014)
2001 - 2006 Kyoto University Graduate School of Science Ph.D. Course, Division of Earth & Planetary Sciences
1999 - 2001 Kyoto University Graduate School of Science Master Course, Division of Earth & Planetary Sciences
1995 - 1999 Kyoto University Faculty of Science
Professional career (1):
博士 (理学) (京都大学)
Work history (4):
2019/10 - 現在 Ehime University Graduate School of Science and Engineering Associate professor
2009/06 - 2019/09 Ehime University Graduate School of Science and Engineering Assistant professor
2006/06 - 2009/05 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral research fellow
2006/04 - 2006/06 Kyoto University Graduate School of Science Trainee
Association Membership(s) (6):
Japanese Society for Zooarchaeology
, Anthropological Society of Nippon
, Sedimentological Society of Japan
, Palaeontological Society of Japan
, Geological Society of Japan
, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology