Museum exhibits based on our research

Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History

Temporary exhibit from Sep. 5 to Nov. 27, 2020

Siniperca ikikoku Yabumoto, 2020 (Japanese name: Ikimukashiketugyo)

Yabumoto, Y. 2020. Siniperca ikikoku, a new species of freshwater percoid fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan. Paleontological Research, vol. 24, no. 3: 226–237, figs. 1–9, tab. 1.

THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH AND LIFE

Cretaceous

Holotype of Mawsonia brasiliensis Yabumoto, 2002

Yabumoto, Y. 2002. A new coelacanth from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research Vol. 6(4): 343-350, figs. 1-4.

Triassic and Jurassic fishes

Paratype of Whiteia oishii Yabumoto and Brito, 2016

Yabumoto, Y. and P. M. Brito. 2016. A new Triassic coelacanth, Whiteia oishii (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia) from West Timor, Indonesia. Paleontological Research, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 233–246, figs. 1-13.

Cretaceous fishes from Brazil

Brito, M. P. and Y. Yabumoto. 2011. An updated review of the fish faunas from the Crato and Santana formations in Brazil, a close relationship to the Tethys fauna. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 9: 107-136, figs. 1-33, apps. 1-2.

Cenozoic

Pleistocen freshwater fish fossils

Yabumoto, Y. 1987. Pleistocene gobiid fishes of the genus Rhinogobius from Kusu Basin, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, No. 7, pp. 111-119.

Uyeno, T., Y. Yabumoto, E. Kitabayashi, T. Aoki and Y. Tomida. 2000. Paleoichthological survey of a Middle Pleistocene lacustrine bed in the Kusu Basin, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum, (32): 55-75, figs. 1-2, pls. 1-10. (in Japanese with English summary)

This fish fossil assemblage is selected as ”Fossil of Oita Prefecture” by the Geological Society of Japan based on the collection of KMNH.

THEME EXHIBITIONS

Coelacanths and history of the sea

Contents of the touch panel: International Round-table on Coelacanth Evolution, some topics of coelacanths and others.

Yabumoto, Y. 2002. A new coelacanth from the Early Cretaceous of Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research Vol. 6(4): 343-350, figs. 1-4.

Uyeno, T. and Y. Yabumoto. 2008. Origin of extant coelacanths. The Coelacanth, Fathom the Mystery 2007, International Symposium Proceedings, Nov. 24, 2007, pp. 24 – 26, figs. 1-5.

Yabumoto, Y. 2008. A new Mesozoic coelacanth from Brazil (Sarcopterygii, Actinistia). Paleontological Research, 12(4): 329 - 343, figs. 1 - 10, app. 1.

Yabumoto, Y., M. Iwata, Y. Abe, and T. Uyeno. 2012. Function of the pseudomaxillary fold in the mouth opening of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae. Ichthyol Res, 59(1): 164-168, figs. 1-3.

Yabumoto, Y. and P. M. Brito. 2013. The second record of a mawsoniid coelacanth from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeastern Brazil, with comments on the development of coelacanths. Mesozoic Fishes 5 – Global Diversity and Evolution, G. Arratia, H.-P. Schultze & M. V. H. Wilson (eds.): pp. 489-497, 5 figs., 1 tab.

Yabumoto, Y. and T. Uyeno. 2014, How they survived beyond the Cretaceous extinctio, the evolution of coelacanths based on fossil coelacanths and anatomy of extant species. Identikits, 68(3): 245–250, figs. 1-6. (in japanese).

Fragoso, L. G. C., P. Brito and Y. Yabumoto. 2019. Axelrodichthys araripensis Maisey, 1986 revisited. Historical Biology, 2019, 31(10): 1350–1372, figs. 1-22.

Iwata, M., Y. Yabumoto, T. Saruwatari, S. Yamauchi, K. Fujii, R. Ishii, T. Mori, F. D. Hukom, Dirhamsyah, T, Peristiwady, A. Syahailatua, K. W. A. Masengi, I. F. mandagi, F. Pangalila and Y. Abe. 2019. Field surveys on the Indonesian coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis using remotely operated vehicles from 2005 to 2015. Bull. Kitakyushu Mus. Nat. Hist. Hum. Hist., Ser. A (Natural History), 17, Special Issue on coelacanths: 49–56.

TIME TRAVELING ROOM and RESEARCH ZONE

Age of Lake ー Fish fossils

Yabumoto, Y. 1994. Early Cretaceous Freshwater fish fauna in Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, No. 13, pp. 107-254.

The Wakino fish fossil assemblage is selected as Fukuoka Prefectural Fossil by the Geological Society of Japan.

This fish fossil assemblage is selected as ”Fossil of Fukuoka Prefecture” by the Geological Society of Japan.

RESEARCH ZONE

Eocene Warm Sea

Carcharodon nodi Yabumoto, 1989

Yabumoto, Y. 1989. A new Eocene lamnoid shark, Carcharodon nodai, from Omuta in northern Kyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, No. 9, pp. 111-116.

Age of Sea

Fish fossils from the Oligocene Ashiya Group

Uyeno, T., Y. Yabumoto and N. Kuga. 1984. Fossil fishes of Ashiya Group -(I) Late Oligocene elasmobranchs from Islands of Ainoshima and Kaijima, Kitakyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, (5): 135-142, pls. 1-5. (in Japanese with English abstract)

Yabumoto, Y. 1987. Oligocene lamnid shark of the genus Carcharodon from Kitakyushu, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History, No. 6, pp. 239-264.

Birth of Kyushu Island

Iquius nipponicus Jordan, 1919 and Ikiculter chojabaruensis Yabumoto, 2010

Yabumoto, Y. and Y. Sakamoto. 2010. Revision of Iquius nipponicus Jordan 1919 (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan and its phylogenetic position. Ichthyological Research, 57: 286-297, figs. 1-9, tab. 1, app.

Yabumoto, Y. 2010. Ikiculter chojabaruensis, a new genus and species of cyprinid fish from the Miocene of Iki Island, Nagasaki, Japan. Paleontological Research, 14(4): 277-292.

Providing explanations through touch panels

Fushimi, K., Y. Yabumoto, M. Manabe, and S. Ikemoto. 2014. Possibility of exhibit explanations with Wi-Fi: A trial and practice of the exhibit explanation web. Tenjigaku, no. 51, pp. 88-91, Fig. 1-4. (in Japanese).