- Niko, S., 1996:
- Pseudorthoceratid cephalopods from the Early Devonian Fukuji formation of Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.
- Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series, no. 181, pp. 347–360.
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- Nishinosono, S., 1996:
- Larval paleoecology of the late Pleistocene naticid gastropod Cryptonatica with two protoconch types from the Oga peninsula, northern Japan.
- Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series, no. 182, pp. 419–431.
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- Oji, T., Kanoh, M., Toshimitsu, S. and Tashiro, M., 1996:
- Nielsenicrinus japonicus new species (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the Late Cretaceous of Japan and its paleobiogeographic implications.
- Journal of Paleontology, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 964–968.
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- Otsuka, H., Okuno, M., Ohta, T. and Nakamura, T., 1996:
- Accelerator mass spectrometric <14>^C dating of mammalian fossils collected from the sea bottom of the East China Sea and Seto Inland Sea and Elephantidae from Miyako Island of the Nansei Islands.
- Summaries of Researches using AMS at Nagoya University, vol. 7, pp. 268–275. (in English with Japanese abstract)
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- Saito, M., 1996:
- Early loop ontogeny of some Recent laqueid brachiopods.
- Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society of Japan. New Series, no. 183, pp. 485–499.
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- Shigeta, Y., 1996:
- The genus Gabbioceras (Ammonoidea, Gaudryceratidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan.
- Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Series C, vol. 22, nos. 1–2, pp. 1–9.
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- Tanabe, K. and Landman, N. H., 1996:
- Septal neck-siphuncular complex of ammonoids.
- In: Landman, N. H., Tanabe, K. and Davis, R. A. (eds.)
Ammonoid Paleobiology, Volume 13 of Topics in Geobiology, pp. 129–165. Plenum Press, New York.
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- Amano, K., 1997:
- Biogeography of the genus Neptunea (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Pliocene and the lower Pleistocene of the Japan Sea borderland.
- Paleontological Research, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 274–284.
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- Okamoto, T. and Shibata, M., 1997:
- A cyclic mode of shell growth and its implications in a Late Cretaceous heteromorph ammonite Polyptychoceras pseudogaultinum (Yokoyama)
- Paleontological Research, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 29–46.
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- Ubukata, T., 1997a:
- Microscopic growth of bivalve shells and its computer simulation.
- The Veliger, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 165–177.
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- Ubukata, T., 1997b:
- Mantle kinematics and formation of commarginal shell sculpture in Bivalvia.
- Paleontological Research, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 132–143.
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- Niko, S., 1998a:
- Kobayashiceras gifuense, a new actinocerid cephalopod from the Lower Devonian of Japan.
- Journal of Paleontology, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 36–38.
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- Niko, S., 1998b:
- First discosorid cephalopod from Japan.
- Paleontological Research, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 145–147.
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- Niko, S., 1998c:
- Devonian tentaculitids from central and northeast Japan.
- Paleontological Research, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 279–282.
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- Sasaki, T., 1998:
- Comparative anatomy and phylogeny of the recent Archaeogastropoda (Mollusca: Gastropoda).
- The University Museum, The University of Tokyo, Bulletin, no. 38, pp. 1–224.