The fieldwork is supported by a grant from the Ministry of Land Resources of the People's Republic of China (9501130); Xu Xing' s work is supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40125006).
A specimen collected from the Upper Cretaceous Erlian Formation of Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia), China, represents a new genus and species of titanosaurian sauropod. The new taxon is named and described on the basis ...
supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40125006);the Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Projects of China(No.G2000077700);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.KZCX3-J-03).
Pygostyle was previously considered as a unique structure of ornithothoracine birds, used to maneuver tail feathers. A similar structure from an oviraptorosaurian dinosaur was considered functionally associated with t...