According to Wikipedia, is a Japanese vertebrate palaeontologist. A student of Shikama Tokio, he did his graduate work at the University of Arizona under Everett H. Lindsay, with mentorship also from George Gaylord Simpson. The curator of Mammalian Palaeontology at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, from 1981 until his retirement in 2015, he has published on a wide range of terrestrial and marine mammals, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodilians, and bird tracks, with a special focus on smaller mammals — lagomorphs and rodents — and on the fossil record of Japan. His descriptions and studies of Pliopentalagus spp. have shown their closeness to the Amami rabbit . Upon his retirement, Tomida was the honorand of a Festschrift in the journal Historical Biology.
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Published Works
Description of a new species of Anhangueridae(Pterodactyloidea) with comments on the pterosaur fauna from the Santana Formation(Aptian-Albian), northeastern Brazil (2000) (238)
A NEW SPECIMEN OF APATOSAURUS AJAX (SAUROPODA: DIPLODOCIDAE) FROM THE MORRISON FORMATION (UPPER JURASSIC) OF WYOMING, USA (2004) (90)
ANATOMY OF A JAPANESE TOMISTOMINE CROCODYLIAN, TOYOTAMAPHIMEIA MACHIKANENSIS (KAMEI ET MATSUMOTO, 1965), FROM THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE OF OSAKA PREFECTURE : THE REASSESSMENT OF ITS PHYLOGENETIC STATUS WITHIN CROCODYLIA (2006) (20)
"Dragonian" fossils from the San Juan Basin and status of "Dragonian" land mammal age (1980) (19)
A partial skeleton of titanosaurian sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Toba City, central Japan (2006) (18)
New Eomyid genus and species of Apeomys FAHLBUSCH 1968 [Eomyidae (?), Rodentia, Mammalia] affinity from the Early Miocene (MN zones 3 and 4) of Europe and Japan (1997) (4)
Review of fossil chelonioid sea turtles (Class Reptilia: Order Testudines: Chelonioidea) from Japan (2012) (0)
Preface to the Natural History Researches of Northern Hokkaido (1991) (0)
EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF THE GENUS PLIOPENTALAGUS (LEPORIDAE, LAGOMORPHA) IN THE HOLARCTIC REGION (2005) (0)
EDITORIAL NOTE Proceedings of the Third Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium (2011) (0)
Collection Building of Vertebrate Body Fossils in South Korea(Part One Collection Building) (2004) (0)
TWO NEW SPECIES OF PLIOPENTALAGUS ( LEPORIDAE , LAGOMORPHA ) FROM THE PLIOCENE OF ANHUI PROVINCE , CHINA , WITH A REVISION OF PL . HUAINANENSIS (2009) (0)
