supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41688103,32020103006,and 31730087);registered under Zoo Bank LSID urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:221D9C8B-4091-4200-8784-5DD633CF1028。
Twig mimicry among insects,whereby they imitate branches and twigs of plants to escape predation or enhance prey capture,is most common and diversified in Phasmatodea(stick and leaf insects),a group of iconic models f...
supported by the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation, China to Xia Wang (ZR2017QD013)
Reconstructing flight abilities of fossil birds from preserved wings and feathers is an important goal if we are to understand the evolution of flight.Wing-shape is known to correlate well with bird flight style[1],bu...
supported by the Chinese Geological Survey(1212011120972);the National Natural Science Foundation(41072021);the Geologic Survey Project of China(1212011121067)
Two important geological issues have a long history of debate in the Xingmeng area.The first concerns the final closure of the North China plate,Siberia plate and several intermediate massifs in the area,and the other...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40971115);the University Doctoral Foundation(20090091110036);the Open Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology from the Institute of Earth Environment,CAS (SKLLQG0817);the Test Foundation of Modern Analyses Center of Nanjing University(0209001309);the Foundation of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China(2010BAK67B02)
Based on AMS 14 C dating data,carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses were conducted on mammal bone collagen of deer,cattle and pigs from the Zhongba site in the Three Gorges Reservoir region of the Yangtze River.These a...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.40472015);State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Re-sources China University of Geosciences, Wuhan (Grant No.GPMR2007-01);the Science Foundation of China Postdoctors (Grant No.20070420523)
The microbial communities blooming immediately after the end-Permian mass extinction represent abnormally extreme environments, and vary in different areas. In this study, filamentous cyanobacterial biota was found in...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40332021, 30670159);Wu Zhengyi's Splendidly Contributing Award of Yunnan Province (Grant No. KIB-WU-2001-01)
Using data from previous research on Quercus sect. Heterobalanus, the coexistence approach to Xix-abangma and Namling fossil sets, and altitudinal ranges of vegetation presented by fossil floras, a re-view and reevalu...
The authors are particularly grateful to Prof.Xing Yusheng and Wang Xiaofeng for providing the field information and the valuable comments.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.40272015);a special grant from China Geological Survey(Grant No.200213000042)to Yin Chongyu.
Two new horizons with macroscopic fossils are reported in the Doushantuo Formation, Ediacaran System, from the Yangtze Gorges area. The fossils were discovered in the lower and middle black shales of the Doushantuo Fo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.440272015);the China Geology Survey(Grant No.1212010511607);0pen Laboratory of Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences(Grant No.KL05-4).
Microtubular metazoan fossils with multi- branches are found at least 4 times from the Sinian (Ediacarian) Doushantuo Formation at Weng’an, Guizhou, China. Their living mode should be the benthonic colony with higher...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40372001 and 40072007 to DXP);Laboratory of Paleobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.023106 to XPD);funded by the Research Fund for Doctoral Program of High Education(Grant No.2000000127 to XPD);the Funding of Peking University(to XPD),the Royal Society(to XPD and PCJD),the international cooperation program of NSFC(to PCJD and XPD);the Natural Environment Research Council(Grant Nos.NER/M/S/2002/00069 and NE/C511256/1 to PCJD).
Exquisitely preserved three-dimensional soft- bodied fossils and typical Orsten-type preservation have been found from the strata of Middle and Late Cambrian in western Hunan, China. A preliminary description is provi...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 49902002 and 49972006);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.KZCX2-116);the Major Basic Research Projects of Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (Gran
The Doushantuo Formation in South China was deposited after the Nantuo glaciation but before the evolution of complex Ediacaran metazoans. It contains multiple taphonomic windows, in its cherts, carbonaceous shales, a...