Hitoshi Furusawa

Hitoshi Furusawa (1956–2023), Japanese marine mammalogist and palaeontologist.

日本語: 古沢仁

Taxon names authored

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• 7 taxon names authored by Hitoshi Furusawa

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1988

• Furusawa, H. 1988. A new species of Hydrodamaline Sirenia from Hokkaido, Japan. Takikawa Museum of Art and Natural History. pp. 1–76. Reference page. 

2004

• Furusawa, H. 2004. A phylogeny of the North Pacific Sirenia (Dugongidae: Hydrodamalinae) based on a comparative study of endocranial casts. Paleontological Research 8(2): 91–98. DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.8.91 Reference page. 

2019

• Ichishima, H., Furusawa, H., Tachibana, M. & Kimura, M. 2019 [2018]. First monodontid cetacean (Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the early Pliocene of the north-western Pacific Ocean. Papers in Palaeontology 5(2): 323–342. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1244 Reference page. 

2020

• Tanaka, Y., Furusawa, H. & Kimura, M. 2020. A new member of fossil balaenid (Mysticeti, Cetacea) from the early Pliocene of Hokkaido, Japan. Royal Society Open Science 7: 192182. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.192182 Reference page. 

2025

• Tanaka, Y., Kimura, T., Shinmura, T., Ohira, H. & †Furusawa, H. 2025. A new member of a large and archaic balaenid from the Late Miocene of Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan partly fills a gap of right whale evolution. Paleontologia Electronica 28(2): 1–59. DOI: 10.26879/1549 Reference page.