supported by the Bureau of Geological Survey of China(1212011120116);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40632010,41102005,91114201,and J0930006);the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB821906)
The brackish-water bivalve Waagenoperna Tokuyama, 1959 is reported from the Lower Jurassic Badaowan Formation at four localities, along the southern margin and western margin of the Junggar Basin. Taphonomic features ...
supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant noKZCX2-YW-QN104);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91114201,40632010,J0930006)
A new genus and species of fossil elaterid namely Clavelater ningchengensis gen. et sp. nov. assigned to the subfamily Protagrypninae based on one specimen from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation near Daohugou ...
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 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 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...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grants nos.40672013 and 40632010);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant no.KZCX2-YW-QN104);the Major Basic Research Projects of China's Ministry of Science and Technology(no.2006CB806400)
Three lepidopteran species, from the Middle Jurassic Daohugou beds (inner Mongolia, China), are described in a new family, Mesokristenseniidae, and new genus, Mesokristensenia, which could represent the sister group...
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 ...