Possibility of systemic skeleton is high.

The 21st , and Mukawa-cho stand Hobetsu Museum of Hokkaido , the research team Kobayashi Associate Professor = old spine of Hokkaido University Museum of ( spine ) Zoology = Luo strata ( latest Cretaceous ) about 72 million years ago in the forests of the same town Hobetsu for dinosaur fossil found from , I announced "possibility of systemic skeleton high " he said. It is Japan's first whole body skeleton of the same period of last dinosaur extinction if confirmed .
Collector of local discovered in 2003 is part of this fossil , as a result of the investigation , turned out to ( tail vertebrae ) part of the tail of fellow plant-eating dinosaur hadrosaur family of large . The excavations of September and October last year , about 100 of the fossil site back from the waist that hits ( 1.2 m length , diameter 20 cm ) and thigh of the left and right ( roughly ) section , about one-third of the whole body I was found . There are three fossils of teeth , I found the whole body skeleton , including the head is remaining . About eight meters in length estimation , about seven tons estimated body weight , increase in the size dinosaur of the world's largest in the duck-billed dinosaur family.
The submarine of 80-200 m water depth in the latest Cretaceous strata there was a fossil found since the dinosaurs sank into the sea after death , skeleton has not dissipated . Dinosaur fossil found in Japan about 60 points . Debris , such as teeth and bones , the discovery of whole body skeletal rare very much .
Kobayashi Associate Professor said, " latest Cretaceous is a giant dinosaur is prosperous , . Fossil time that Tyrannosaurus was alive is valuable in helping to explore the evolution of dinosaurs in Asia in . U.S. era of extinct soon " he said. Over the next two years , with the aim of excavation of the whole body skeleton . I want you to restore excavated the entire skeleton .

北海道のむかわ町立穂別博物館と、北海道大学総合博物館の小林准教授＝古脊椎（せきつい）動物学＝らの研究チームは２１日、同町穂別の山林の約７２００万年前（白亜紀末期）の地層から見つかった恐竜化石について、「全身骨格の可能性が高い」と発表した。恐竜絶滅直前の同時代の全身骨格が確認されれば国内初となる。
　この化石の一部は地元の収集家が２００３年に発見し、調査の結果、大型の草食恐竜ハドロサウルス科の仲間のしっぽの一部（尾椎骨）と判明。昨年９、１０月の発掘調査では、左右の大腿（だいたい）部（長さ１・２メートル、直径２０センチ）など、体全体の約３分の１に当たる腰から後ろの部位の化石約１００個が見つかった。歯の化石も３個あり、頭部も含めた全身骨格が残っているとみられる。推定体長約８メートル、推定体重約７トンで、ハドロサウルス科の中で世界最大級の大型恐竜という。
　化石があった地層は白亜紀末期には水深８０〜２００メートルの海底とされ、恐竜が死後に海に沈んだため、骨格が散逸しなかったとみられる。国内で発見された恐竜化石は約６０点。多くは歯や骨の破片などで、全身骨格の発見は極めて珍しい。
　小林准教授は「白亜紀末期は恐竜が繁栄して巨大化し、間もなく絶滅した時代。米国ではティラノサウルスが生きていた時期。化石はアジアの恐竜の進化を探るうえで貴重」と話した。今後２年間で、全身骨格の発掘を目指す。全骨格を発掘し復元して欲しいですね。