supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(STEP)(Grant No.2019QZKK0704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.42272029).
Gnetophytes are a key group of plant for understanding seed plant phylogeny,partly because of their unique and elusive morphology,such as xylem with vessels,phloem with chaperones,reticular veins,and double fertilizat...
The authors thank the China Geological Survey(DD20190008);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41574024,41662003)programmes for supporting the project.
During the Late Neoproterozoic and Early Cambrian,a series of paleogeographic and paleoecological events occurred associated with deglaciations and the evolution of life.The appearance of fossils representing diverse ...
the support of the Xunta de Galicia government(Spain)through projects INCITE09-200-019-PR and Consolidacion e Estructuracion 2018 GRC GI-1243-GEMAP,ED431C 2018/32。
to identify plant macrofossils,estimate peat humification and calculate hydroclimatic indices based on current bog species,with the overall aim of determining the climate conditions associated with evolution of the bo...
financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41272038);the State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology,China University of Geosciences(No.GBL11610)
Previously undescribed Ediacaran macrofossils are documented in and close to a quarry southwest of Zigui in Shunyang Valley, near Sixi Village, Yangtze Three Gorges region, Hubei Prov- ince, China. Discoidal impressio...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41271218);the Project Strategic Priority Research Program-Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Relevant Issuse of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA05130601);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. LZUJBKY-2015-k09 and LZUJBKY-2014-116)
The origin, development and expansion of prehistoric agriculture in East Asia have been widely investigated over the past two decades using archaeobotanical analysis from excavated Neolithic and Bronze Age sites. Rese...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41202008,41202009,41172022);the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China (No.2011JQ5012);the Special Fund for Basic Scientific Research of Central Colleges,Chang'an University(Nos. 2014G1271061,CHD2011JC122,CHD2011TD005, 20I4G3272013,2013G3274021 and 2013G1271101);the Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Paleobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.123112)
The extant genus Paliurus Miller is divided into P. ramosissimus and P. spina-christi groups and is diagnostically characterized by distinctive orbicular-winged fruits with a trilocular (or often bilocular) ovary an...
supported by the Key Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Paleontology,Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences(Grant No.JB0705);the Institute of Geology,Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences(Grant No.J0716);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40272015,40672022);the China Geology Survey Grant(Grant Nos.1212010511607,200213000042)
A new macrofossil Lagerstatte was discovered from the uppermost Ediacaran Jiucheng Member at Jinning and Jiangchuan of the eastern Yunnan, yielding numerous diverse well-preserved thallophyte macrofossils. These inclu...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40332016,04062003,40702005);National"973"Project(2006CB806401)";as well as by the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in Universities(G2000077702) and the Sino-Japan Cooperative Project
Apart from previously reported Small Shelly Fossils (SSFs), a macroscopic fossil assemblage, comprising abundant algae, cone-shaped tubular fossil forms, and probable impressions of a megascopic metazoan, comes from...