funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40332016,04062003,40702005);National"973"Project(2006CB806401)";as well as by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in Universities(G2000077702) and the Sino-Japan Cooperative Project
Apart from previously reported Small Shelly Fossils (SSFs), a macroscopic fossil assemblage, comprising abundant algae, cone-shaped tubular fossil forms, and probable impressions of a megascopic metazoan, comes from...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40572015 and 40332016);Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400);Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (PCSIRT);Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University, and National Basic Science Personnel Training Foundation (Grant No. J0630537)
Phosphatized and three-dimensionally preserved embryos and spherical fossils of metazoan recovered from the Kuanchuanpu Member, Dengying Formation in southern Shaanxi, China provide nice devel- opmental sequence for t...
Supported by National Basic Science Personnel Training Foundation (Grant No. J0630537);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40272013, 40572015, and 40332016);Ministry of Sciences and Technology, China (Grant Nos. 2006CB806400 and 2003CB716805);Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innova-tive Research Team in University (PCSIRT), Education Department of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 03JK096);Innovation Fund of Personnel Training Base, Department of Geology, Northwest University (Grant No. XDCXD04-02)
The Late Sinian (Ediacaran) Gaojiashan Biota was a soft-bodied fossil-Lagersttte dominated by sub-stantial pyritized, three-dimensionally preserved tubular and conotubular fossils. Soft-tissue pyritiza-tion is extreme...