study was financially supported by the Asian–Swedish research partnership programme of the Swedish Research Councile;the Major Basic Research Projects(2006CB806400)of MST of China;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40121202)
A new bird from the early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning, China is described. This new species, Grabauornis lingyuanensis, shares several synapomorphies with the Enantiornithes. The specimen is relatively wel...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41172019,40772019,40432003,40121202);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX3-SW-142);the Major Basic Research Projects(2006CB806400)of MST of China~~
supported bythe grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(#40872019) to SQH;fromthe Major Basic Research Projects(#2006CB806400) of the Ministry of Science and Technologyof China to SQH,WXC and LC;from the Canadian Museum of Nature(R34) to WXC;from the National Natural Science Foundation(#40772015,40121202) of China;theCAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams to LC and WXC~~
supported by National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40121202),and Chinese Academy of Sciences
In the last twenty years,the extraordinary discoveries of vertebrate fossils from the Jehol Biota not only have important impli-cations for studying the evolution of major Mesozoic vertebrate groups,their paleobiostra...
funded by the Major Basic Research Projects(2006CB806400)of MST of China;the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40121202),and a travel fund from Normal Superior School,France~~
Supported by the Major Basic Research Projects(2006CB806400);of MST of China,the Chinese Academy of Sciences(kzcx3-sw-142);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40121202)
An incomplete postcranial avian skeleton is described from the Lower Cretaceous Jingchuan Formation of Otog Banner of western Inner Mongolia and referred to a new species of Cathayornis, C. chabuensis sp. nov. This is...
National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40472018, 40121202);the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX3-SW- 142);the Major Basic Research Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (Gtant No. 2006CB806400);the Royal Soci-ety and Natural Environment Research Council (Grant No. NE/E011055/1)
Confuciusornithids, lived from 120–125 million years ago, form a basal bird group and include the oldest birds with horny beaks. Here we describe Eoconfuciusornis zhengi, gen. et sp. nov. from the Early Cretaceous Da...