the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41888101);the 111 project(B20011);the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities(265QZ201903).
Tracks previously examined between 2002 and 2015 from an incompletely-studied,and now partially lost tracksite site in the Santai Formation of Shandong Province were restudied based on new ex-cavations of additional s...
A joint Sino-Brazilian research team led by Dr.WANG Xiaolin from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(IVPP)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported new dinosaur fossils from the Early ...
This study was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41872026,41688103);the China Geological Survey(DD20190008,DD20190602).
A new dsungaripterid pterosaur,Ordosipterus planignathus gen.et sp.nov.,is established on the incomplete articulated lower jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Luohandong Formation in Otog Qi,Ordos Region,Inner Mongolia,Chi...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41790455, 41772008);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2652017215);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (Grant No. 173127)
A relatively small number of tetrapod tracksites from Zhejiang Province fills out the fossil record from that region,which is also known to have yielded both saurischian(titanosauriform, coelurosaur) and ornithisch...
mainly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the Strategic Priority Research Program(B) of CAS;the Hundred Talents Project of CAS;the Excavation Funding and Emphatic Deployed Project of IVPP,CAS
The pterosaur record is generally poor, and pterosaur eggs are even rarer. Only a handful of isolated occurrences of eggs and embryos have been reported so far. Three-dimensionally preserved eggs include one from Ar...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.41272022);the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund for the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (No.JB1504) to Junchang Lü
Pangupterus liui gen. et sp. nov. from the Jiufotang Formation of Sihedang, Lingyuan City, Liaoning Province is erected based on a nearly complete lower jaw. It is characterized by having a total of 36 slender curved ...
supported by the Liujiaxia Dinosaurs National Geopark;the 2013 Supporting Fund for Graduate Student’s Science and Technology Innovation from China University of Geosciences(Beijing),China
The Yangouxia dinosaur tracksites are well known for a diverse assemblage of tetrapod tracks preserved as natural impressions (concave epireliefs) on large bedding planes, representing a locally widespread surface m...
The increasing number of fossil pterosaur eggs sheds light on nesting environments and breeding be- haviors of these extinct flying reptiles. Here we report the first partial three-dimensional egg of the pterosaur, Pt...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant No. 41272022;the Institute of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences Grant No. J1206, J1308
Based on a new nearly naturally preserved skull and four cervical vertebrae of the pterosaur Feilongus sp. from the lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Beipiao, western Liaoning province, northeastern China, the d...
supported by Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, CAS (2011LESV008);the Xinjiang Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration
A pterosaur-bird track assemblage from a sandstone-siltstone-mudstone sequence of the Lower Cretaceous Tugulu Group of Xinjiang comprises the first pterosaur track record from this province and the largest specimen th...