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 National Natural Science Foundation of China Programs (No. 40772006, 30670140, 40372008, 40632010 and J0630967),the State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany at the Institute of Botany, and SRF for ROCS, SEM
The origin of angiosperms has been tantalizing botanists for centuries. Despite the efforts of palaeobotanists, most of the pre-Cretaceous angiosperms are regarded either non-convincing or misdated. The applications o...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40772006,40372008, 40632010 and J0630967); Resources Platform of Mineral Rockand Fossil, and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
The early evolution of angiosperms has been a focus of intensive research for more than a century. The Yixian Formation in western Liaoning yields one of the earliest angiosperm macrofioras. Despite multitudes of angi...
supported by National Centre for NanoScience and Technology(China),Jiangsu Planned Project for Postdoctoral Research Funds,K.C.Wong Postdoctoral Fellowships,China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(No.2005037746);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS),NSFC Program(Nos.40772006,40372008,40632010 and J0630967)
Fossil cytoplasm is a new research topic of interest in paleobotany. Atomic force microscope (AFM) is a new technology applied widely in physics and biology; however, it is rarely used in paleontology. Here we appli...
financially supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2006CB701402);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40372008).
A primary study on palynofacies, which concerns the paleoenvironments from the sight of association of sedimentary organic matter preserved in sedimentary rocks, is conducted for a Late Jurassic-Cretaceous succession ...
Supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB701400);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40472004, 40372008);Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX-2-129);Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University, Northeast Research Center and Museum for Petrified Wood and Mineral Resources,Thailand. This is a contribution to International Geoscience Program IGCP Project No. 506.
Mesozoic to Cenozoic petrified woods are very rich and well preserved in the Khorat Plateau, Northeast Thailand, serv ing as remarkable material for investigations of tropical vegetation history, paleoclimatic evoluti...
This study was supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KZCX-2-SW-129);the National Basic Research Program of China(2006CB701400);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40472004,39900007 and 40372008);the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Science Research of Japan(Type C)(Grant No.13640475);This is a contribution to Intermational Geoscience Program IGCP Project No.506.