Masahiro Sato Explained

Masahiro Sato
Nationality:	Japanese
Sport:	Ice hockey
Birth Date:	27 October 1936
Birth Place:	Kanagawa, Japan

is a Japanese ice hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Winter Olympics.^[1]

Discovery of Wakinosaurus

In 1990, Masahiro Sato in Fukuoka found the tooth of a theropod dinosaur. The same year, Yoshihiko Okazaki first reported on the find.^[2] In 1992, Okazaki named the type species, Wakinosaurus satoi. The generic name refers to the Wakino Subgroup of the Kwanmon Group, of which the Sengoku Formation is a member. The specific name honours Sato.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Masahiro Sato Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417213445/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sa/masahiro-sato-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 16 May 2019.
2. Okazaki, Y., 1990, "Discovery of dinosaur remain from the Kwanmon Group", Abstract of the Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society of Japan, 37
3. Okazaki, Y. (1992). A new genus and species of carnivorous dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kwanmon Group, northern Kyushu. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 11:87-90