Papers

Mizuno, F. & N. Kohno, 2023. New genicular joint angle criteria for Flexor Muscle (Musculus Semimembranosus) during the terrestrial mammals walking. PeerJ, 11: e15379 (20pp).
Guo, Z. & N. Kohno, 2023. An Early Miocene kentriodontoid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the western North Pacific, and its implications for their phylogeny and paleobiogeography. PLoS ONE, 18(2): e0280218 (24pp).(3.3 MB)
Ando, Y., T. Kaede, H. Kitagawa, T. Aida & N. Kohno, 2023. Discovery of a whole skeleton of a paleoparadoxiid from the Syukunohora Formation of the Mizunami Group in Kamado-cho, Mizunami City, Gifu, Japan. Fossils, 113: 1-2. (in Japanese)
Ando, Y., H. Tokugawa & N. Kohno, 2023. Making of restoration model of an enaliarctine pinniped from the Lower Miocene Akeyo Formation (Mizunami Group), Mizunami City, Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 49: 167-173. (in Japanese)
Segawa, T., A. Kohno, H. Nishihara, F. Tokanai & N. Kohno, 2022. Investigation of the origin of the Pleistocene brown bears on the Honshu Island based on C14 age and ancient DNA analyses. Isotope News, 782: 26-30. (in Japanese)
Segawa, T., T. Yonezawa, H. Mori, A. Kohno, Y. Kudo, A. Akiyoshi, J. Wu, F. Tokanai, M. Sakamoto, N. Kohno & H. Nishihara, 2022. Paleogenomics reveals independent and hybrid origins of two morphologically distinct wolf lineages endemic to Japan. Current Biology, 32: 1-11.
Hasegawa, Y., T. Kimura & N. Kohno, 2022. The wolf from Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is identical in size to the North American Wolf. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History, 26: 31-46. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Segawa, T., T. Yonezawa, H. Mori, A. Akiyoshi, M. E. Allentoft, A. Kohno, F. Tokanai, E. Willerslev, N. Kohno & H. Nishihara, 2021. Ancient DNA reveals multiple origins and migration waves of extinct Japanese brown bear lineages. Royal Society Open Science, 8: 210518.
McCurry, M. R., F. G. Marx, A. R. Evans, T. Park, N. D. Pyenson, N. Kohno, S. Castiglione & E. M. G. Fitzgerald, 2021. Brain size evolution in whales and dolphins: new data from fossil mysticetes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, XX: 1-9.
Hasegawa, Y., T. Kimura, H. Matsuoka, I. Obara, T. Yamauchi, A. Kohno, N. Kohno & F. Tokanai, 2021. Holocene remains of Japanese wolf and black bear from Hiranta Cave, Kuma-mura, Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu Island, Japan . Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History, 25: 19-39. (in Japanese with English abstract)9.(9.6 MB)
Nishioka, Y., N. Kohno & Y. Kudo, 2021. Taxonomic revision of the holotype of Proboselaphus watasei Matsumoto, 1915 (Bovidae, Artiodactyla) from Chuanyu area, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.210322.
Kawatani, A. & N. Kohno, 2021. The oldest fossil record of the extant genus Berardius (Odontoceti, Ziphiidae) from the Middle to Late Miocene boundary of the western North Pacific. Royal Society Open Science, 8: 201152.
Guo, Z. & N. Kohno, 2021. A new kentriodontid (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the early to middle Miocene of the western North Pacific and a revision of kentriodontid phylogeny. PeerJ, 9: e10945.
Kohno, N., Y. Ando & T. Kaede, 2021. A fossil pinniped from the lower Miocene Akeyo Formation, Mizunami Group at the construction site of the Togari-Tsukiyoshi City Road in Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum, 47: 125-135. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Hasegawa, Y., T. Kimura & N. Kohno, 2020. Late Pleistocene megacanid (Mammalia, Canidae) from Yage Limestone Quarry, central Honshu, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History, 24: 1-13. (in Japanese with English abstract)(1.5 MB)
Tsuzuku, N. & N. Kohno, 2020. The oldest record of the Steller sea lion Eumetopias jubatus (Schreber, 1776) from the early Pleistocene of the North Pacific. PeerJ, 8: e9709.
Paterson, R. S., N. Rybczynski, N. Kohno & H. C. Maddin, 2020. A total evidence phylogenetic analysis of pinniped phylogeny and the possibility of parallel evolution within a monophyletic framework. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7: 457 (16pp).
Handa, N., N. Kohno & Y. Kudo, 2019. Reappraisal of a middle Pleistocene rhinocerotid (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from the Matsugae Cave, Fukuoka Prefecture, southwestern Japan. Historical Biology, DOI:10.1080/08912963.2019.1604699 (12pp).
Soeda, Y., T. Aono, R. Tomizuka, Y. Nagaya, K. Kobayashi, T. Mitani, N. Kanno, K. Matsuda, H. Katayama, S. Sugiyama, A. Shibutani, N. Kohno, T. Miyaji, K. Nakamura & T. Watanabe, 2019. The impact enormous volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and the coldest period of the Little Ice Age had on the Ainu IV. Bulletin of Hokkaido Museum, 4: 57-72. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Yamada, E., M. O. Kubo, T. Kubo & N. Kohno, 2018. Three-dimensional tooth surface texture analysis on stall-fed and wild boars (Sus scrofa). PLoS One, 13(10): e0204719 (16pp).
Racicot, R. A., S. A. F. Darroch & N. Kohno, 2018. Neuroanatomy and inner ear labyrinths of the narwhal, Monodon monoceros, and beluga, Delphinapterus leucas (Cetacea: Monodontidae). Journal of Anatomy, 223(4): 421-439.
Tonomori, W., H. Sawamura, T. Sato & N. Kohno, 2018. A new Miocene pinniped Allodesmus (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, northern Japan. Royal Society Open Science, 5: 172440 (22pp).
Soeda, Y., T. Aono, T. Mitani, Y. Nagaya, N. Kanno, K. Matsuda, K. Nakamura, S. Sugiyama, A. Shibutani, T. Miyaji, N. Kohno & T. Watanabe, 2018. The impact enormous volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and the coldest period of the Little Ice Age had on the Ainu III. Bulletin of Hokkaido Museum, 3: 119-132. (in Japanese with English abstract).
Kimura, T., Y. Hasegawa & N. Kohno, 2018. A new species of the genus Eschrichtius (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Early Pleistocene of Japan. Paleontological Research, 22(1): 1-19.
Kubo, O. M., E. Yamada, T. Kubo & N. Kohno, 2017. Dental microwear texture analysis of extant sika deer with considerations on inter-microscope variability and surface preparation protocols. Biosurface and biotribology, 3: 155-165.
Yamada, E., O. M. Kubo, T. Kubo & N. Kohno, 2017. Reconstruction of feeding ecology based on tooth microwear: historical review and recent progress using three dimensional microtexture analysis. Fossils, 102: 73-85. (in Japanese)(2.2 MB)
Tsai, C.-H., A. Collareta, E. M. G. Fitzgerald, F. G. Marx, N. Kohno, M. Bosselaers, G. Insacco, A. Reitano, R. Catanzarti, M. Oishi & G. Bianucci, 2017. Northern pygmy right whales highlight Quaternary marine mammal interchange. Current Biology, 27: R1058-R1059.
Mori, H., F. G. Marx, N. Kohno, H. Nakaya & H. Akazaki, 2017.  Enigmatic humerus of an archaic Oligocene-Miocene neocete from Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan. Paleontological Research, 21(3): 207-214.
Yonezawa, T., T. Segawa, H. Mori, P. F. Campos, Y. Hongoh, H. Endo, A. Akiyoshi, N. Kohno, S. Nishida, J. Wu, H. Jin, J. Adachi, H. Kishino, K. Kurokawa, Y. Nogi, H. Tanabe, H. Mukoyama, K. Yoshida, A. Rasoamiaramanana, S. Yamagishi, Y. Hayashi, A. Yoshida, H. Koike, F. Akishinonomiya, E. Willerslev & M. Hasegawa, 2017. Phylogenomics and morphology of extinct paleognaths reveal the origin and evolution of the ratites. Current Biology, 27: 1-10.
Soeda, Y., T. Aono, Y. Nagaya, A. Shibutani, K. Nakamura, N. Kanno, K. Matsuda, T. Mitani, T. Miyaji, T. Watanabe & N. Kohno, 2017. The impact enormous volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and the coldest period of the Little Ice Age had on the Ainu II. Bulletin of Hokkaido Museum, 2: 49-60. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Racicot, R. A., W. Gearty, N. Kohno & J. J. Flynn, 2016. Comparative anatomy of the bony labyrinth of extant and extinct porpoises (Cetacea: Phocoenidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 119(4): 831-846.
Tsai, C.-H. & N. Kohno, 2016. Multiple origins of gigantism in stem baleen whales. Science of Nature, 103(11-12), Art. 89: 1-8.
Marx, F. G. & N. Kohno, 2016. A new Miocene baleen whale from the Peruvian desert. Royal Society Open Science, 3: 160542.
Waku, D., T. Segawa, T. Yonezawa, A. Akiyoshi, T. Ishige, M. Ueda, H. Ogawa, H. Sasaki, M. Ando, N. Kohno & T. Sasaki, 2016. Evaluating the phylogenetic status of the extinct Japanese otter on the basis of mitochondrial genome analysis. PLoS One, 11(3): e0149341.
Chiba, K., A. R. Fiorillo, L. L. Jacobs, Y. Kimura, Y. Kobayashi, N. Kohno, Y. Nishida, M. J. Polcyn & K. Tanaka, 2016. A new desmostylian mammal from Unalaska (USA) and the robust Sanjussen jaw from Hokkaido (Japan), with comments on feeding in derived desmostylids. Historical Biology, 28(1-2): 289-303.
Soeda, Y., T. Aono, Y. Nagaya, T. Watanabe, A. Shibutani & N. Kohno, 2016. The impact enormous volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and the coldest period of the Little Ice Age had on the Ainu 1. Bulletin of Hokkaido Museum, I: 119-126. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Wu, J., N. Kohno, S. Mano, Y. Fukumoto, H. Tanabe, M. Hasegawa & T. Yonezawa, 2015. Phylogeographic and demographic analysis of the Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) based on mitochondrial DNA. PLoS One, 10(9): e0136398.
Tanaka, Y. & N. Kohno, 2015. A new Late Miocene odobenid (Mammalia: Carnivora) from Hokkaido, Japan suggests rapid diversification of basal Miocene odobenids. PLoS One, 10(8): e0131856.
Kimura, T., A. Adaniya, M. Oishi, F. G. Marx, Y. Hasegawa & N. Kohno, 2015. A Late Miocene balaenopterid ("Shimajiri-kujira") from the Okamishima Formation, Shimajiri Group, Miyako Island, Okinawa, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History, 19: 39-48. (in Japanese with English abstract): 39-48.
Churchill, M., M. T. Clementz & N. Kohno, 2015. Cope's rule and the evolution of body size in Pinnipedimorpha (Mammalia: Carnivora). Evolution, 69(1): 201-215.
Churchill, M., M. T. Clementz & N. Kohno, 2014. Predictive equations for the estimation of body size in seals and sea lions. Journal of Anatomy, 225(2): 232-235.
Hasegawa, Y., K. Asami, T. Kimura, K. Matsui & N. Kohno, 2014. Early Miocene Paleoparadoxia from the Upper Sanketetsu Formation at Chikubetu River, Tomamae-gun, north-western Hokkaido. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History, 18: 69-76. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Uno, H., M. Yoneda, H. Taru & N. Kohno, 2013. Carbon and oxygen isotope analyses of bioapatite in dental enamel: Toward ecological restoration of fossil mammals. Fossils, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, 94: 33-43. (in Japanese)
Yanagisawa, Y., K. Konishi & N. Kohno, 2012. Diatom ages of the pinniped and cetacean fossils found in the diatomaceous mudstone of the Middle Miocene Iizuka Formation in Suzu City (Noto Peninsula), Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan. Open-File Report of Geological Survey of Japan, AIST, 546: 1-6. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Tsubamoto, T. & N. Kohno, 2011. Reappraisal of "Brachyodus" japonicus, an Oligocene anthoracothriid cetartiodactyl from Japan. Paleontological Research, 15(3): 115-124.
Dokuchaev, N. E., N. Kohno & S. D. Ohdachi, 2010. Reexamination of fossil shrews (Sorex spp.) from the Middle Pleistocene of Honshu Island, Japan. Mammal Study, 35(3): 157-168.
Yonezawa, T., N. Kohno & M. Haseawa, 2009. The monophyletic origin of sea lions and fur seals (Carnivora; Otariidae) in the Southern Hemisphere. GENE, 441: 89-99.
Yonezawa, T., N. Kohno & M. Hasegawa, 2008. Origin and phylogenetic evolution of Pinnipedia. Proceedings of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 56(1): 81-99. (in Japanese with English abstract)(681.5 KB)
Kohno, N. & C. E. Ray, 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. In Clayton E. Ray, David J. Bohaska, Irina A. Koretsky, Lauck W. Ward, and Lawrence G. Barnes (Eds.), Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina, IV. Virginia Museum of Natural History in Association with the Smithsonian Institution Special Publication, 14: 39-80.
Kohno, N., D. Yakushi & E. Kobayashi, 2007. Discovery of a skeleton of the Hydrodamalis sea cow from the Lower Pleistocene Iimuro Formation, Komae City, Tokyo, central Japan. Fossils, The Palaeontological Society of Japan, (82): 1-2. (in Japanese)
Norton, C., Y. Hasegawa, N. Kohno & Y. Tomida, 2007. Distinguishing archeological and paleontological faunal collections from Pleistocene Japan: taphonomic perspectives from Hanaizumi. Anthropological Science, 115(2): 91-106.
Yonezawa, T., M. Nikaido, N. Kohno, Y. Fukumoto, N. Okada & M. Haseawa, 2007. Molecular phylogenetic study on the origin and evolution of Mustelidae. GENE, 396(1): 1-12.
Hasegawa, Y. & N. Kohno, 2007. Cornwallius tabatai Tokunaga, 1939 (currently Paleoparadoxia tabatai; Mammalia: Desmostylia): proposed designation of usage of the specific name by the designation of a neotype. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 64(2): 113-117.
Kohno, N., H. Koike & K. Narita, 2007. Outline of fossil marine mammals from the Middle Miocene Bessho and Aoki Formations, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Research Report of the Shinshushinmachi Fossil Museum, 10: 1-45. (in Japanese with English abstract)
Kohno, N., 2006. A new pinniped of the Family Odobenidae (Mammalia: Carnivora) from the late Middle Miocene Ichibangawa Formation, Hokkaido, Japan, and its implication for odobenid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 26(2): 411-421.