Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum

The Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum is located in Fukui, Japan, is one of the leading dinosaur museums in Asia that famend for its famous of fossil specimens of dinosaurs and paleontological studies. It is sited in the Nagaoyama Park Katsuyama Dinosaur Forest Park near the Kitadani Dionosaur Quarry that the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group is cropped out and a huge variety of dinosaur stays inclusive of Fukuiraptor kitadaniensis, Fukuisaurus tetoriensis are discovered and excavated.

FPDM has been mounted as a paleontological and geological museum in the Nagaoyama Park wherein is close to the dinosaur excavation web page the museum is set 5.5 km southwest from the web site at 2000. The nature section of Fukui Prefectural Museum has transferred to FPDM on the same time. The call has been modified from Fukui Prefectural Museum to Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History in 2003.1982 A almost complete skeleton of Crocodilia became determined at Sugiyama department of Takinami river in Katsuyama City of Fukui Prefecture.1984 April. Fukui Prefectural Museum became opened at Fukui City of Fukui Prefecture changed to Fukui Prefectural Museum of Cultural History on the grounds that 2003.