Papers

Tezaki, K., Saito-Kato, M. and Matsuoka, K., 2021. Checklist of Planktonic Diatoms in the Coastal Waters of Western Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs, 52. 151p.
Shimada, C., Saito-Kato, M., Yamasaki, M., Tanaka, Y. and Hikida, Y., 2021. Cenomanian diatoms (Bacillariophyta) from the Teshio-Nakagawa area, Hokkaido, northern Japan
Saito-Kato, M. and Yanagisawa, Y., 2020. A non-marine Actinocyclus species from a volcanic ash layer in the middle Miocene Otogawa Formation in the Yatsuo area, Toyama, central Japan. Diatom, 36: 69–79.
Kariya, Y., Takaoka, S. and Saito-Kato, M., 2019. Geological description and chronological estimation of a drilling core recovered from Nishiho-ike linear depression on the upper Genbun-zawa basin, Kamikochi Valley, the northern Japanese Alps
Kojima, T. and Saito-Kato, M., 2019. Stephanodiscus komoroensis H. Tanaka from the Katata Formation, Kobiwako Group, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Diatom, 35: 59–60.
Saito-Kato, M., Tanimura, Y., Yamada, K. and Takemura, K. 2019. Diatom productivity since the last glacial period using Praestephanos suzukii cell size as supportive evidence. Bulletin of National Museum of Nature and Science, Ser. C, 45: 49–56.(1.1 MB)
Hayashi, T., Krebs, W.N., Saito-Kato, M., Tanimura, Y. 2018. The turnover of continental planktonic diatoms near the middle/late Miocene boundary and their Cenozoic evolution. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198003.
Kojima, T., Saito-Kato, M. and Okada, M., 2016. Stephanodiscus akutsui, a new fossil diatom species from the Middle Pleistocene Miyajima Formation, Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, central Japan. Diatom, 32, 47–55.
Sasaki, H., Sasaki, Y., Saito-Kato, M., Naruse, H., Yumi, M. and Ishihara, Y., 2015. Lacustrine sediment gravity-flow deposits and stratigraphic changes intercalated in varved diatomite: an example from the Hiruzenbara Formation, Okayama Prefecture, southwest Japan. Quaternary International, 397, 208–222.
Saito-Kato, M., Tanimura, Y., Mori, S. and Julius, M.L., 2015. Morphological evolution of Stephanodiscus (Bacillariophyta) in Lake Biwa from a 300 ka fossil record. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 34, 165–179.
Sasaki, H., Saito-Kato, M., Komatsubara, J. and Ishihara, Y., 2015. Application of a method for detecting lamina characteristics in sediments for time series analysis: an example using a soft X-ray image of varves from the Hiruzenbara Formation. Journal of the Sedimentological Society of Japan, 74, 31–43.
Saito-Kato, M., 2014. Actinocyclus haradaae (Pantocsek) comb. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Miocene lacustrine deposit in Setana, southwestern Hokkaido, Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science, Series C, 40: 15–20.
Hayashi, T., M. Saito-Kato, and Y. Tanimura, 2011. Actinocyclus nipponicus sp. nov. and A. bradburyii sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta) from Miocene lacustrine sediments of Proto-Japan Sea. Phycologia 51: 98–112.
Saito-Kato, M., Hayashi, T. and Tanimura, Y. 2011. Tetracyclus radius (Bacillariophyta) a new fossil species from Miocene freshwater sediments in the Japan Sea. Phytotaxa 24: 51–57.(958.9 KB)
Yamada, K., Kamite, M., Saito-Kato, M., Okuno, M., Shinozuka, Y. and Yasuda, Y. 2009. Late Holocene monsoonal -climate chagne inferred from Lakes Ni-no-Megata and San-no-Megata, northeastern Japan. Quaternary International 220: 122–132.
Akiba, F., Inoue, Y. and Megumi Saito-Kato, M., 2009. Data report: diatom and foraminiferal assemblages in Pleistocene turbidite sediments from the Cascadia Margin (IODP Expedition 311), Northeast Pacific. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 311,(doi:10.2204/iodp.proc.311.211.2009).
Tanimura, Y., Kato, M., Fukusawa, H., Mayama, S. & Yokoyama, K., 2006. Cytoplasmic masses preserved in early Holocene diatoms: A possible taphonomic process and its paleo-ecological implications. Journal of Phycology, 42: 270–279.
Tanimura, Y., Kato, M., Nagumi, T., Kobayashi, A. and Yokoyama, K., 2005. An exceptionally well preserved middle Pleistocene epiphytic diatom, Arachnoidiscus ornatus, from Japan: a possible taphonomic process. Bulletin of National Science Museum, Tokyo, Ser. C, 31: 1–6.
Kato, M., Tanimura, Y. and Fukusawa, H., 2004. Survival strategy of diatom species living on now-depositing non-glacial varves. Quaternary International, 123–125, 21–26.
Kawakami, I., Matsuo, M., Kato, M. and Hitoshi Fukusawa, H., 2004. Chronology and sedimentation process of varved lacustrine sediment in Lake Fukami, central Japan. Quaternary International, 123–125,27–34.
Inoue, S., Hayashida, A., Kato, M., Fukusawa, H.and Yasuda, Y., 2004. Environmental magnetism of brackish-water sediments from Lake Tougou-ike on the Japan Sea coast. Quaternary International, 123–125, 35–41.
Yasuda, Y., Fujiki, T., Nasu, H., Kato, M., Morita, Y., Mori, Y., Kanehara, M., Toyama, S., Yano, A., Okuno, M., He, J., Ishihara, S., Kitagawa, H., Fukusawa, H. and Naruse, T., 2004. Environmental archaeology at the Chengtoushan site, Hunan Province, China, and implications for environmental change and the rise and fall of the Yangtze River civilization . Quaternary International, 123–125, 149–158.
Kato, M., Tanimura, Y., Fukusawa, H. and Yasuda, Y., 2003a. Intraspecific variation during the life cycle of a modern Stephanodiscus species (Bacillariophyceae) inferred from the fossil record of Lake Suigetsu, Japan. Phycologia, 42: 292–300.
Kato, M., Fukusawa, H. and Yasuda, Y., 2003b. Varved lacustrine sediments of Lake Tougou-ike, western Japan, with reference to Holocene sea-level changes in Japan. Quaternary International, 105: 33–37.
Kato, M., Tanimura, Y., Matsuoka, K and Fukusawa, H., 2003c. Planktonic diatoms from sediment traps in Omura Bay, western Japan with implications for ecological and taphonomic studies of coastal marine environments. Quaternary International, 105: 25–31.
Ishihara, S., Kato, M., Tanimura, Y. and Fukusawa, H., 2003. Varved lacustrine sediments and diatom assemblages of Lake Fukami, central Japan. Quaternary International, 105: 21-24.
Tanimura, Y., Kato, M., Shimada, C. and Matsumoto, E., 2003. A one-hundred-year succession of planktonic and tychopelagic diatoms from 20th century Tokyo Bay. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Ser. C, 29: 1–8.