The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum (福井県立恐竜博物館 Fukui Ken-ritsu Kyōryū Hakubutsukan) is a dinosaur museum located in the city of Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[1] It is one of Japan's many museums which are supported by a prefecture.[2]
In addition to being the only dedicated dinosaur museum in all of
Japan, it is one of the "World's Three Great Dinosaur Museums" along
with the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Canada and the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in China.[citation needed]
The museum signed a sister museum agreement with the Royal Tyrrell
Museum on November 23, 2000, and contains some exhibits from the museum.[3]
Nipponosaurus ("Japanese lizard") is a lambeosaurine hadrosaurid from Asia.
The holotype (UHR 6590, University of Hokkaidō Registration) was discovered in November 1934 during the construction of a hospital for the Kawakami colliery of the Mitsui Mining Company on Karafuto Prefecture (now Sinegorsk, Sakhalin, Russia), and additional material belonging to the specimen was recovered in the summer of 1937.
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