Genus: Sakurasaurus EVANS & MANABE, 1999
Etymology: From the Japanese word, sakura, "cherry blossom," in reference to the ancient cherry blossum trees from which Shokawa village is famous for and Greek, sauros, “lizard”: Cherry blossom lizard.

Species: shokawensis EVANS & MANABE, 1999
Etymology: From the village of Shokawa, Honshu Island, Japan, close to the type locality.

Holotype: IBEF VP 17

Locality: KO2, Stream section in the Kobudani Valley, near Shokawa village, Gifu Prefecture, 36EO3’N, 136E53’E, Honshu Island, Japan.

Horizon: Bone bed approximately midway through the basal member of the Okurondani Formation, Tetori Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Hauterivian Stage, upper Neocomian subepoch, lower Early Cretaceous Epoch, Early Cretaceous.

Material: Left mandible.

Paratype: SBEG VP 001: Left maxilla.

Referred material:

IBEF VP 18: A right dentary, frontals, and ectopterygoid.

IBEF VP 19: A right maxilla.

IBEF VP 25: A right frontal.

IBEF VP 20: A parietal.

SBEG VP 002: A left maxilla.

SBEG VP 003: A right maxilla.

EVANS & MANABE, 2009

SBEI 199: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

SBEI 566: Right denary.

SBEI 1523: Left maxilla.

SBEI 1524: Left dentary.

SBEI 1605: Partial left maxilla.

SBEI 1727: Jaw fragments.

SBEI 1798: Left frontal.

SBEI 1802: Partial left frontal.