supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41162002 and 41172019);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Grant No.123104);Cypriniformes Tree of life under the U.S.National Science Foundation to R.Mayden(Grant No.EFO431326);Natural Science Foundation of Guangxi(Grant No.2013GXNSFAA019284)
Fossil cyprinids from the upper part of the upper Eocene Youganwo Formation of Maoming, Guangdong, China were first studied in 1957 by Liu, who referred the only specimen to the genus Cyprinus as a new species, C. mao...
supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-Q09);National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2012CB821900);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40802010);Key Laboratory of Evolu-tionary Systematics of Vertebrates,IVPP,CAS (Grant No. 2011LESV005)
Here described are the nemacheilid fossils from the Pliocene Lower Member of Qiangtang Formation in the Kunlun Pass Basin,northeastern Tibetan Plateau,at a locality 4769 m above the sea level (a.s.l.).The materials co...
Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40432003, J0630965);Cypriniformes Tree of Life under the U.S. National Science Foundation to R. Mayden (Grant No. EF0431326);Ecocarp Project (European Commission, INCO-DEV Programme) (Grant No. ICA4-CT-2001-10024)
A new Eocene catostomid genus and species,Plesiomyxocyprinus arratiae, is described from Huadian, Jilin Province, northeastern China. The materials include a nearly complete skeleton, dozens of pharyngeal bones with t...