supported by funds from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41930319, 41890844, 41890845 and 41720104002);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB26000000);111 Project (Grant No. D17013);Key Scientific and Technological Innovation Team Project in Shaanxi Province;funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2022M712570);support from a Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Cambridge)。
Over one hundred arthropod fossil species have been described from the famous Chengjiang Lagerst?tte(South China, Cambrian Stage 3, ca. 518 Ma) including a diverse assemblage of radiodonts–a group containing Anomaloc...
the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26000000);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA0718100);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41921002,41902014 and 42072006);the Jiangsu Basic Research Project(BK20191102);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(20192111).
The rapid appearance of major animal groups and complex marine communities during the Cambrian explosion is recorded in large part in Burgess Shale-type lagerstatten.However,the restricted temporal and spatial distrib...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31530067);the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute,Chinese Academy of Sciences(2015CASEABRI005,Y4ZK111B01)。
Two new spider families from Late Cretaceous Kachin amber(Myanmar),Pilosarachnidae Jiang&Li,fam.nov.and Gigarachnidae Jiang&Li,fam.nov.,are described:Pilosarachne ju Jiang&Li,gen.&sp.nov.and Gigarachne bian Jiang&Li,g...
Financial support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41890844,41425008,41621003 and 41720104002 to Z.Z.F.;41772002 to C.B.S.);the Overseas Expertise Introduction Project for Discipline Innovation(D17013)for the continuous fossil collections of Xi’an group;supported by the Swedish Research Council to C.B.S.(VR2016–04610)and T.P.T.(VR2017–05183);Young Thousand Talents Plan of China to T.P.T.,;the Independent Innovation Project of graduate students of Northwest University(YZZ17196)to L.F.
The phylogenetic position of hyoliths has long been unsettled,with recent discoveries of a tentaculate feeding apparatus('lophophore')and fleshy apical extensions from the shell('pedicle')suggesting a lophophorate aff...