supported financially by China Geological Survey(Grant No.DD20230221);the Key Laboratory of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology,Ministry of Natural Resources(Grant No.KLSP SP202301);National Nature Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41202012).
Twelve new dinosaur teeth have recently been recovered from three localities in the Upper Cretaceous Nenjiang Formation of the Songliao Basin.Although fragmentary,the material offers enough evidence to identify the fo...
Chinese scientists have unearthed the oldest short-tailed bird fossil,pushing the class’s origins back by 20 million years and offering new insights into early life on Earth,In a remarkable discovery,a team of Chines...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(42130209;42002015);Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(2021070);General Project of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department(202101BA070001-076);Project of Young and Middle-aged Academic and Technical Talents(202405AC350098);Meemann Chang Academician Workstation in Yunnan Province(202205AF150002)。
A new species of Bothriolepis(Placodermi,Antiarcha),B.zhujiangyuanensis sp.nov.,is described from the Eifelian(Middle Devonian)Shangshuanghe Formation at the Pearl River Source Scenic Area,Qujing,Yunnan Province,south...
The Upper Cretaceous successions of Wadi Umm-Khayshar,southern Galala Plateau,North Eastern Desert,Egypt,are composed of highly diversified faunas and subdivided from base to top into the Galala(Middle-Late Cenomanian...
Dinosaur discoveries from India have been known since 1844, while dinosaur discoveries from Pakistan have appeared recently since 2000. 3 large and 2 small theropod dinosaurs are known from Pakistan, while 11 large an...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32270467,32020103006);National Research Foundation of Ukraine(2020/02/0369 to A.G.R.);CONCYTEC through the PROCIENCIA“Interinstitutional Alliances for Doctorate Programs”(PE501084299-2023-PROCIENCIA-BM to M.S.E.)。
Most described Mesozoic ants belong to stem groups that existed only during the Cretaceous period.Previously,the earliest known crown ants were dated to the Turonian(Late Cretaceous,ca.94-90 million years ago(Ma))depo...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41725007,42250104,41830323,42002015,and 42302001);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.020614380168,JZ2023HGQA0144 and JZ2023HGTA0175)。
A knowledge graph(KG)is a knowledge base that integrates and represents data based on a graph-structured data model or topology.Geoscientists have made efforts to construct geosciencerelated KGs to overcome semantic h...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.92255301,41972006,42072026,42130209);Mee-mann Chang Academician Workstation in Yunnan Province(Grant No.202205AF150002)。
New discovery of the early Silurian fossil fish Changxingaspis(Xiushuiaspidae,Galeaspida),Changxingaspis nianzhongi sp.nov.and C.gui,are described from the Tataertag Formation in Tarim Basin and the Kangshan Formation...
The Eocene Kuldana Formation(KF)in the Yadgar area of Pakistan,comprises a diverse range of sedimentary facies,including variegated red beds of shales,mudstones,and sandstones,as well as interbedded limestone and marl...
The authors appreciate the hard work and help of our friends in the Geological Survey of Iran,North East Territory(GSINET),especially Dr.Jafar Taheri.The authors are especially grateful for the linguistic helps and efforts of Susan Turner(Brisbane).
Spatangoid echinoids belonging to Heteraster found in the Lower Cretaceous limestones and calcareous deposits of the Tirgan and Sarcheshmeh formations(Barremian-Aptian)in the Bahman jan-Bala stratigraphic section on t...