Secular variations of carbon isotopic composition of organic carbon can be used in the study of global environmental variation, the carbon cycle, stratigraphic delimitation, and biological evolution, etc. Organic carb...
Financial support by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40303001,40232020);Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft(Grant No.Str 281/16-1/16-2)is gratefully acknowledged.
The Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation on the Yangtze Platform, South China, documents a sedimentary succession with different sedimentary facies from carbonate platform to slope and to deep sea basin, and hosts one ...
Dinomischus is a rare solitary epifaunal suspension feeder. The over-all morphology of Dinomischus consists of a conical calyx surrounded with elongate bracts and an elongate stem. Visceral mass and stomach sac are ev...
This research was supported in part by grants from the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China(40162002,40372023,40232020);from the Foundation of the Key and Basic Project of Science and Technology of Guizhou(Gui No.2002-309);from the Early and Special Projects of the Key and Basic Projects of the Ministry of Technology and Science of China(2002 CCC 02600)to Zhao;from the U S.National Science Foundation(0106883,0229757)to Babcock.
A Burgess Shale-type biota is, in part, characterized by a wide diversity of taxa and soft-part preservation. Each provides unique historical insights into early metazoan evolution. Among the more than 40 globally dis...
This work was supported by the Major State Basic Research Project(Grant No.G200007 7700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40572006 and 40232020).
With the verification of the type specimen by six experts from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, the specimen of Xianfengella prima He and Yang, 1982 described by Qian (Qian, 2001, flge2: la-c) is...