supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX2-YW-154);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40772006, 40625006,40632010 and J0630967);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Programs (20102108,20101104);the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
According to the classic doctrine of angiosperm evolution,the archetype carpel in angiosperms is of plicate form.However,this concept is facing increasing challenges from the systematics based on molecular data,which ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40872015, J0630967);Major Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2006CB806400);The research resulted in this paper was also supported by the scientific exchange project of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Sciences "Palaeobiodiversity of Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha (Insecta:Hemiptera) of Daohugou Biota",the Chinese-Polish Scientific and Technological Cooperation project "Fulgoromorpha and Cicadomorpha (Insecta:Hemiptera) of the Daohugou Biota:morphology, classification,evolution";The paper is a contribution to the research grant "Extinct and extant genus in the palaeontological record of recent families of insects" from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Poland NN 303 2979 37 awarded to JS for the years 2009-2012
A new family of planthoppers Fulgoromorpha from the Lower Jurassic of southern China is described to comprise Qiyangiricania cesta Lin,1986.The new family differs in venation pattern from the other Jurassic representa...
supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-153,154);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40772006, 40625006, 40632010 and J0630967);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (20102108 and 20101104);the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
Chuaria is one of the few globally distributed macrofossil pioneers documented in the Precambrian. It is perhaps the most controversial fossil in term of its affinity despite more than one hundred years of study. Many...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40725005, 40930211, J0630967);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806401)
Based on previously published species data(228 species in over 18 phyla) and field sampling(114 species and 18406 individuals) in the Chengjiang-Haikou-Anning area,we analyzed quantitatively the paleocommunity composi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(GrantNos.40772006,40372008,40632010,and J0630967);the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry,China;a contribution to UNESCO-IUGS International Geological Correlation Programme 506
The origin of angiosperms has been a focus of intensive research for a long time. The so-called pre- Cretaceous angiosperms, including Schmeissneria, are usually clouded with doubt. To expel the cloud around the enigm...
supported by NSFC Programs (No.40772006,40372008,40632010 and J0630967);the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry
Searching for early angiosperms is a riveting activity in botany because it helps to resolve the phyiogenetic relationships among seed plants and among angiosperms themselves. One of the challenges for this job is wha...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.40772006,40372008,40632010 and J0630967);Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars,State Education Ministry
Although there are many reports of fossil Ephedraceae,whole plant fossil record remains rare.Due to a lack of trust on partially preserved fossil materials,scholars working on molecular clock proposed a recent origin ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40872015, J0630967);the Major Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2006CB806400);Grant RFFI 07-04-92105-GFEN_a, Program of the Russian Academy of Sciences"Evolution of Biosphere"
Adults of the aquatic coptoclavid beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscoidea), described from four Middle Jurassic fossil localities in Inner Mongolia and Liaoning in northeastern China, are attributed to Daohugou...