Field work focused on the Kuedinskie Kluchiki locality, Perm region, Urals, Russia, which contains a rich assemblage of diverse fossil organisms including higher plants(equisetophytes, pteridosperms, ginkgophytes, con...
the Yozgat Bozok University Scientific Research Projects Unit (Grant No. 6602aMUH/20-385)。
This study investigated the calcareous nannofossil assemblages in detail from the early Miocene aged Lice Formation outcropping in the Kahramanmara? basin. The biostratigraphy of calcareous nannofossils was outlined a...
Fossil leaves,fruits,and woods assigned to Rhamnaceae have been recorded from India,however,there are no previous reports of rhamnaceous fossil flowers from India.Here,we report the first fossil flowers in appreciable...
supported by the National Science Centre(NCN,Kraków,Poland)(2015/18/E/NZ8/00637);the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange(NAWA,Warszawa,Poland)(BPN/BEK/2021/1/00357/U/00001)to LFF。
The typical mammalian neck consisting of seven cervical vertebrae(C1–C7)was established by the Late Permian in the cynodont forerunners of modern mammals.This structure is precisely adapted to facilitate movements of...
supported by the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(No.223115)to Zhongwu Lan.
Taphonomy and paleoecology(biological behavior)of the Early Cretaceous fish fossils are poorly described.This study reports for the first time a detailed taphonomical and paleoecological study on Lycoptera in the Meso...
We are indebted to Lenka Váchováwho kindly prepared SEM pictures(Hitachi S-3700 N);we kindly thank Jan Sklenár for his free access to an Olympus microscope at NM,Prague;T.K.was supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic(DKRVO 20222.III.c);M.K.V.was supported by the RVO 67985831 of the Institute of Geology of the Czech Academy of Sciences,v.v.i;the Center for Geosphere Dynamics(UNCE/SCI/006).
A diverse sessile barnacle fauna from a Miocene shallow-water deposit at Dolnja Stara vas in Slovenia is described.It includes the first descriptions of early post settlement juveniles of Actinobalanus sloveniensis at...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.42072141and 41702363);the Geological Survey of China(No.DD20221645)。
As the largest intermontane basin in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau(TP),the Qaidam Basin provides unique insight into paleoclimatic change and its relationship with global change and uplift on the TP.In this study,b...
currently supported by the Lever-hulme Trust (UK)(EM-2021-010)。
The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction was the earliest of the ‘big' five extinction events and the earliest to affect the trajectory of metazoan life. Two phases have been identified near the start of the Hirnantian pe...
1Introduction.The Tibetan Plateau(TP)is the largest and highest terrain on the Earth,comprising more than 80%of continents higher than 4000 m above sea level.The extremely high elevation resulted in cold and arid clim...
This work was funded in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41872017);the Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS)(Nos.193113 and 183125);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,CHD(Nos.300102272206,300102271402 and 300102271403);the Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Project(No.S202210710194).
Pinus is an economically and ecologically important genus whose members are dominant components globally in low-latitude mountainous and mid-latitude temperate forests.Pinus species richness is currently concentrated ...