Research theme for competitive and other funds (5)：
2024 - 2027 骨断面形状から探る白亜紀鳥類の水生適応とその進化的意義
2024 - 2025 触って学ぶ鳥類のからだと生態:体験型学習キット及びプログラムの開発
2022 - 2023 白亜系篠山層群大山下層の動物相の構成・特異性の解明
2018 - 2019 真鳥形類の系統解析と骨組織学から探る現生鳥類の起源
2015 - 2016 白亜紀後期の鳥類の水棲適応進化
Papers (9)：
Tomonori Tanaka, Kazumi Wada, Akiko Shinya, Tadahiro Ikeda. The challenge of hard-to-reach spaces in mechanical fossil preparation: Development of the Wada air scribe, a novel short-bodied air scribe with an adjustable handle. Palaeontologia Electronica. 2024. 27. 1. 1-19
Tadahiro Ikeda, Hidetoshi Ota, Tomonori Tanaka, Kenji Ikuno, Katsuhiro Kubota, Kohei Tanaka, Haruo Saegusa. A fossil Monstersauria (Squamata: Anguimorpha) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of the Sasayama Group in Tamba City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cretaceous Research. 2022. 130. 105063. 105063-105063
Kohei Tanaka, Darla K. Zelenitsky, François Therrien, Tadahiro Ikeda, Katsuhiro Kubota, Haruo Saegusa, Tomonori Tanaka, Kenji Ikuno. Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Cretaceous Research. 2020. 114
Tomonori Tanaka, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Kenji Ikuno, Tadahiro Ikeda, Haruo Saegusa. A marine hesperornithiform (Avialae: Ornithuromorpha) from the Maastrichtian of Japan: Implications for the paleoecological diversity of the earliest diving birds in the end of the Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research. 2020. 113
Anthony R. Fiorillo, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Paul J. McCarthy, Tomonori Tanaka, Ronald S. Tykoski, Yuong Nam Lee, Ryuji Takasaki, Junki Yoshida. Dinosaur ichnology and sedimentology of the chignik formation (Upper Cretaceous), Aniakchak national monument, Southwestern Alaska; Further insights on habitat preferences of high-latitude hadrosaurs. PLoS ONE. 2019. 14. 10
TANAKA Tomonori, KOBAYASHI Yoshitsugu. Hesperornithiformes: the Origin and Evolution of the Cretaceous Diving Birds. Japanese Journal of Ornithology. 2018. 67. 1. 57-68
Coordination of the Different Exhibits : Application of Astronomical Simulator Software Mitaka as a Bridge between Exhibitions in the University Museum. 2017. 43. 1. 59-76
Potential of Mortar as an Experimental Material to Aid in the Understanding of Rock Weathering through Freezing and Thawing. 2017. 70. 1. 15-22
The Challange of hard-to-reach spaces in mechanical fossil preparation: development of a novel short-bodied air scribe with a flexible head
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2023)
An intramandibular joint in troodontids and its functional implications
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2023)
A basal neoceratopsia (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia) from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian), southwestern Japan
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2023)
Phylogenetic position of a ceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation (Albian) of the Sasayama Group in Tambasasayama City, Hyogo, Japan
(2023)
A new small Hesperornithiformes from the Smoky Hill Member of the Niobrara Formation in western Kansas
(Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 2022)
