Shikama Tokio Explained

Shikama Tokio 鹿間時夫
Birth Date:	1912
Death Date:	1978
Nationality:	Japanese
Occupation:	Palaeontologist

(1912–1978) was a Japanese vertebrate palaeontologist.^[1] Considered the leading Japanese figure in the field in the immediate pre- and post-war years,^[2] species he described include Yabe's giant deer (Sinomegaceros yabei).^[3]

External links

• Shikama Tokio (Japan Paleobiology Database)

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://www.museum.tohoku.ac.jp/science/person.htm . ja:鹿間時夫 . Shikama Tokio . ja . . 9 June 2022.
2. Contributions to vertebrate palaeontology in honour of Yukimitsu Tomida . Jacobs, L.L. . Flynn, L.J. . 1 . Historical Biology . 2016 . 28 . 1–2 . 10.1080/08912963.2015.1049839 . 2.
3. Discovery of a giant fallow deer from the Pleistocene in Japan . Shikama Tokio . Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography . 1938 . 16 . 115–122.