Hyōgo Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Hyōgo Prefecture has a population of 5,469,762 and has a geographic area of 8,400 square kilometres (3,200 sq mi). Hyōgo Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the east, Osaka Prefecture to the southeast, and Okayama Prefecture and Tottori Prefecture to the west.
Tamba-Sasayama, formerly known as Sasayama, is a city in the central eastern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2022, the city had an estimated population of 40,050 in 17523 households and a population density of 110 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 493.21 square kilometres (190.43 sq mi)
Inagawa is a town located in Kawabe District in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 November 2022, the town had an estimated population of 29,579 in 12552 households and a population density of 330 persons per km². The total area of the town is 90.33 square kilometres (34.88 sq mi).
Tamba is a city in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. As of 31 March 2022, the city had an estimated population of 62,152 in 26090 households and a population density of 130 persons per km². The total area of the city is 493.21 square kilometres (190.43 sq mi).
Kyōtamba is a town located in Funai District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 May 2022, the town had an estimated population of 13,195 in 6188 households and a population density of 44 persons per km². The total area of the town is 303.09 square kilometres (117.02 sq mi). Its name comes from the first syllable of Kyōto and the former town of Tamba, a namesake of the historic Tanba Province.
Sasayama Castle is an early Edo Period Japanese castle located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo, Japan. It ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1956.
Gigantoraptor is a genus of large oviraptorosaur dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period. It is known from the Iren Dabasu Formation of Inner Mongolia, where the first remains were found in 2005.
Furuichi Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.
Kusano Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.
Minami-Yashiro Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company .<
Sasayamaguchi Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company.
Tamba-Ōyama Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company .<
Sasayama Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan, located in Tanba Province in what is now the west-central portion of modern-day Hyōgo Prefecture. It was centered initially around Sasayama Castle in what is now the city of Tamba-Sasayama.
The Kitadani Formation is a unit of Lower Cretaceous sedimentary rock which crops out near the city of Katsuyama in Fukui Prefecture, Japan, and it is the primary source of Cretaceous-aged non-marine vertebrate fossils in Japan. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, but it also preserves a diverse assemblage of plants, invertebrates, and other vertebrates. Most, if not all, of the fossil specimens collected from the Kitadani Formation are reposited at the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum.
Monstersauria is a clade of anguimorph lizards, defined as all taxa more closely related to Heloderma than Varanus. It includes Heloderma, as well as several extinct genera, such as Estesia, Primaderma and Gobiderma, but this group was found to be polyphyletic in the most recent and complete squamate phylogenetic analysis by Reeder et al. (2015).
Tambatitanis is an extinct genus of titanosauriform dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Japan. It is known from a single type species, Tambatitanis amicitiae, which is known from the Sasayama Group. It was probably around 14 m (46 ft) long and its mass was estimated at some 4 tonnes. It was a basal titanosauriform and possibly belonged to the Euhelopodidae. The holotype was collected between 2006 and 2010.
Pachygenys is a genus of scincomorphan lizard from the Lower Cretaceous of Asia, P. thlastesa from Aptian of Laiyang, China, and P. adachii from Albian of Hyogo, Japan. Its name is composed of the Greek words παχυς pachys ("thick") and γένυς génys ("jaw").
Nipponoolithus is an oogenus of fossil egg native to Japan. It is one of the smallest known dinosaur eggs, and was probably laid by some kind of non-avian maniraptor.
Yamatosaurus is a genus of basal hadrosaurid from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)-aged Kita-Ama Formation of Awaji Island, Japan. The genus contains a single species, Yamatosaurus izanagii.
Sciroseps is an extinct genus of scincomorph squamates known from a partial left mandible, UA-2016-13-294, from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group in Arkansas, USA. The type and only species is Sciroseps pawhuskai. Its generic name is derived from Greek "σκυρος: skiros" (gypsum), and "σεπος: sepos" ; and its species name refers to historic Osage chief Pawhuska.
