Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum
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- Location
- Katsuyama, Japan
- Year
- 2000
- Typology
- Museum
- Materials
- Bamboo & Paper, Glass, Marble, Metal cladding
- Context
- Metabolism
- Map
- Open location
The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum , located in Katsuyama, Fukui, Japan, is one of the leading dinosaur museums in Asia that is renowned for its exhibits of fossil specimens of dinosaurs and paleontological research. It is sited in the Nagaoyama Park near the Kitadani Dinosaur Quarry that the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group is cropped out and a large number of dinosaur remains including Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis and Fukuisaurus tetoriensis are found and excavated.
