| Tomida Yukimitsu 冨田幸光 | |
| Birth Date: | 1950[1] |
| Nationality: | Japanese |
| Occupation: | Palaeontologist |
| Employer: | National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo (1981–2015) |
(born 1950) is a Japanese vertebrate palaeontologist.[2] A student of Shikama Tokio, he did his graduate work at the University of Arizona under Everett H. Lindsay, with mentorship also from George Gaylord Simpson.[2] The curator of Mammalian Palaeontology at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, from 1981 until his retirement in 2015, he has published on a wide range of terrestrial and marine mammals, dinosaurs, pterosaurs, crocodilians, and bird tracks, with a special focus on smaller mammals — lagomorphs and rodents — and on the fossil record of Japan.[2] [3] His descriptions and studies of Pliopentalagus spp. have shown their closeness to the Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi).[2] Upon his retirement, Tomida was the honorand of a Festschrift in the journal Historical Biology.[2]