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Kimura, Y., L. L. Jacobs, L. J. Flynn, 2025. Early branching among basal murine rodents with the description of a new genus. Fossil Imprint 72: 19-29.
木村由莉, 2023. 化石の修復とレプリカ製作:コレクション継承に向けた古生物学の取り組み. 博物館研究 58: 19-22.

Flynn L. J. and Y. Kimura. 2023. One more Siwalik surprise: the oldest record of Mus (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the late Miocene of northern Pakistan. In: Lee, Y.-N. (ed) Windows to Sauropsid & Synapsid Evolution. Essays in honor of Prof. Louis L. Jacobs. Dinosaur Science Center Press, Hwaseong City, South Korea. 264-272 ISBN 978-89-5708-356-7
Kimura, Y., D. Fukui, M. Yoshiyuki, K. Higashi, 2022. Conservation paleobiology on Minami-DaitoIsland, Okinawa, Japan: Anthropogenic extinction of cave-dwelling bats on a tropical oceanic island. PeerJ 10: e12702.

Kalthoff, D., F. Oldrich, Y. Kimura, B. Bailey, T. Mörs. 2022. Incisor enamel microstructure places New and Old World Eomyidae outside Geomorpha (Rodentia, Mammalia). Zoologica Scripta 51: 381-400. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12541
 
Matsui, K. and Y. Kimura, 2022. Museum exhibitions of fossil specimens into commercial products: unexpected outflow of 3D models due to unwritten image policies. Frontiers in Earth Science 10: 874736. 10.3389/feart.2022.874736
 
Casanovas-Vilar, I., M. Garcés, Á. Marcuello, J. Abella, J. Madurell-Malapeira, S. Jovells-Vaqué, L. Cabrera, J. Galindo, E. Beamud, J. J. Ledo, P. Queralt, A.Martí, J. Sanjuan, C. Martín-Closas, G. Jiménez-Moreno, À. H. Luján, A. Villa, D. DeMiguel, I. M. Sánchez, J. M. Robles, M. Furió, Lars W. Van den Hoek Ostende, Antonio Sánchez-Marco, Óscar Sanisidro, Alberto Valenciano, Israel García-Paredes, Chiara Angelone, Guillem Pons-Monjo, Beatriz Azanza, Massimo Delfino, Arnau Bolet, Montserrat Grau-Camats, Víctor Vizcaíno-Varo, David Mormeneo, Y. Kimura, Salvador Moyà-Solà & David M. Alba, 2022. Els Casots (Subirats, Catalonia), a key site for the Miocene vertebrate record of Southwestern Europe, Historical Biology, 34: 1494-1508. DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2022.2043296
 
Matsui, K. and Y. Kimura, 2022. A “mammalian-like” pycnodont fish: Independent acquisition of thecodont implantation, true vertical replacement, and carnassial dentitions in carnivorous mammals and a peculiar group of pycnodont fish. Life, 12, 250. https://doi.org/10.3390/life12020250
Kimura, Y., L. J.  Flynn, L. L. Jacobs, 2021. Tempo and Mode: Evidence on a protracted split from a dense fossil record. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:642814.
Kimura, Y., I. Casanovas-Vilar, O. Maridet, D. C. Kalthoff, T. Mörs, Y. Tomida, 2020. The Eomyidae in Asia: Biogeography, diversity and dispersals. Fossil Imprint, 76: 181-200.

Flynn L. J., Y. Kimura, L. L. Jacobs, 2020. Chapter 15 The Murine Cradle. In: Prasad, G. V. R. et al. (eds) Biological consequences of Plate Tectonics: New Perspectives on Post-Gondwana Break-up–A Tribute to Ashok Sahni, Springer. 347-362. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49753-8
 
Flynn L. J., L. L. Jacobs, Y. Kimura, L. H. Taylor, Y. Tomida,2020. Siwalik fossil Soricidae: A calibration point for the molecular phylogeny of Suncus. Paludicola, 12: 247-258.
Kimura Y., Y. Tomida, D. C. Kalthoff, I. Casanovas-Vilar, T. Mörs, 2019. A new endemic genus of eomyid rodents from the early Miocene of Japan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64: 303-312.

Flynn L.J., L. L. Jacobs, Y. Kimura, E. H. Lindsay, 2019. Rodent Suborders. Fossil Imprint 75: 292-298.
Matsui, K., Y. Kimura, M. Nagata, H. Inose, K. Ikeda, B. L. Beatty, H. Obayashi, T. Hirata, S. Otoh, T. Shinmura, S. Agematsu, K. Sashida, 2018. A long-forgotten ‘dinosaur’ bone from a museum cabinet, uncovered to be a Japan's iconic extinct mammal, Paleoparadoxia (Desmostylia, Mammalia). Royal Society Open Science 5: 172441.
 
Aghová, T., Y. Kimura, J. Bryja, G. Dobigny, L. Granjon, G. J. Kergoat
, 2018. Fossils know it best: Using a new set of fossil calibrations to improve the temporal phylogenetic framework of murid rodents (Rodentia: Muridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128:98-111.

Kimura, Y., L. J. Flynn, L. L. Jacobs, 2017. Early late Miocene murine rodents from the upper part of the Nagri Formation, Siwalik Group, Pakistan, with a new fossil calibration point for the Tribe Apodemurini (Apodemus/Tokudaia). Fossil Imprint, 73: 197-212.

Gómez Cano, A. R., Y. Kimura, F. Blanco, I. Menéndez, M.A. Álvarez-Sierra, M. Hernández Fernández, 2017. Ecomorphological characterization of murines and non-arvicoline cricetids (Rodentia) from south-western Europe since the latest Middle Miocene to the Mio-Pliocene boundary (MN 7/8 – MN13). Peer J, 5: e3646
Kimura, Y., L. J. Flynn, L. L. Jacobs, 2016. A paleontological case study for species delimitation in diverging fossil lineages. Historical Biology, 28: 189-198.

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: 289-303.

Jacobs, L. L., L. J. Flynn, Y. Kimura, Y. Kobayashi, X. Wang, Z. Qiu, C. Jin, Y. Zhang, L. H. Taylor, N. Kohno, A. J. Winkler, 2016. Contributions to vertebrate palaeontology in honour of Yukimitsu Tomida. Historical Biology, 28: 1-7.
Kimura, Y., M. T. R. Hawkins, M. M. McDonough, L. L. Jacobs, L. J. Flynn, 2015. Corrected placement of Mus-Rattus fossil calibration forces precision in the molecular tree of rodents. Scientific Reports, 5: 14444. 
Kimura, Y., L. L. Jacobs, L. J. Flynn, 2013. Lineage-specific responses of tooth shape in murine rodents (Murinae, Rodentia) to late Miocene dietary change in the Siwaliks of Pakistan. PLoS ONE, 8: e76070.

Kimura, Y., L. L. Jacobs, T. E. Cerling, K. T. Uno, K. M. Ferguson, L. J. Flynn, R. Patnaik, 2013. Fossil mice and rats show isotopic evidence of niche partitioning and change in dental ecomorphology related to dietary shift in Late Miocene of Pakistan. PLoS ONE, 8: e69308.

Kimura, Y., 2013. Intercontinental dispersals of sicistine rodents (Sicistinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) between Eurasia and North America. In: Wang X, Flynn LJ, Fortelius M, editors. Fossil Mammals of Asia: Neogene Biostratigraphy and Chronology, Columbia University Press. 656–675.
Zhang, Q., L. Xia, Y. Kimura, G. Shenbrot, Z. Zhang, D. Ge, Q. Yang, 2012. Tracing the origin and diversification of Dipodoidea (Order: Rodentia): evidence from fossil record and molecular phylogeny. Evolutionary Biology, 40: 32-44.
Kimura, Y., 2011. The earliest record of birch mice from the Early Miocene Nei Mongol, China. Naturwissenschaften, 98:87–95.
Kimura, Y., 2010. New material of dipodid rodents (Dipodidae, Rodentia) from the Early Miocene of Gashunyinadege, Nei Mongol, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 30: 1860–1873.
Wang, X., Z. Qiu, Y. Tomida, Y. Kimura, Z. J. Tseng, H. Wang, 2009. A new Early to Late Miocene fossiliferous region in central Nei Mongol: Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy in Aoerban strata. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 47: 111–134.