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Public Symposium: Research on Asian Dinosaurs and its Perspective
On March 23rd (Sun.), we will hold a public symposium, entitled “Research on Asian Dinosaurs and its Perspective” in the lecture hall at Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.
Lectures will be given by world-famous dinosaur paleontologists.
We are looking forward to your participation.
There will be no entrance fees for the symposium (To see museum exhibits, a separate entrance fee will be charged).
Simultaneous translations for English and Japanese will be available.
| Time | Content |
| 9：30 | Door of the lecture hall opened |
| 10：00 | Opening |
| 10：00 | Dr. Rinchen Barsbold (Palaeontological Centre, The Mongolian Academy of Sciences) Mongolian Carnivore Dinosaurs Oviraptors |
| 10：20 | Dr. Philip Currie (The University of Alberta, Canada) Evidence of Mass Deaths of Tyrannosaurids (Dinosauria) from North America and Asia |
| 10：40 | Dr. Martin Sander (Bonn University, Germany) Aging a Mamenchisaur from Xinjiang (China) Using Its Bone Microstructure |
| 11：00 | Dr. David Varricchio (Montana State University, U.S.A.) Counting and Accounting for the Abundance of Dinosaur Eggs from Asia: a Case Study from the Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang, China |
| 11：20 | Dr. Pascal Godefroit (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences) Feather-like Structures and Scales in a Jurassic Neornithischian Dinosaur from Siberia |
| 11：40 | Lunch break |
| 13：00 | Dr. Xu Xing (The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences) Are All Dinosaurs Feathered? |
| 13：20 | Dr. Yoichi Azuma (Fukui Prefectural University and Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum) Dinosaur remains from Fukui Prefecture |
| 13：40 | Discussions and Questions |
| 14：15 | Closing |
* Please confirm time and order of lectures before participating the public symposium as they may change.
Museum tour
We will meet in front of the Guidance Room on the third floor of the museum
- The tour will take about an hour.
- Fossil specimens of the museum will be displayed in the guidance room as the Museum Tour Special Exhibition.
| Time | Details |
9:00 am 11：00～ 14：30～
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The world of dinosaurs ↓ Dinosaurs of Fukui ↓ The Preparation Room and museum backyards ↓ The Guidance Room |
※ The same tour will be held three times during the day. Please be in front of the Guidance Room before the round you would like to join starts.
※ Only the participants registered for the tour may join it.