supported by the Scientific Research Foundation of Hainan Tropical Ocean University(No.RHDRC202008);Project of Hainan Province Key R&D Program(No.ZDYF2021GXJS001).
The water-living reptile genus Hyphalosaurus was previously discovered in the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation bearing the middle Jehol Biota in western Liaoning,China.Two complete skeletons of Hyphalosaurus are repo...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42030510,42002009,42102013);the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB26000000);the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Grant Nos.20201104,20221103);the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences(Grant No.DD20221829)。
The Ordovician rocks on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau represent the oldest non-metamorphic strata,and are critical to understanding the history of regional geology and biotic evolution of the entire plateau.Strata of Fl...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42372043,41972034,42072043)。
Rocks of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau(QTP)host abundant Triassic fossils.So far,the well established marine fossil sequences based on ammonoids,conodonts,bivalves,brachiopods,radiolarians,and terrestrial spora-pollen s...
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...
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...
financially supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(Grant No.2019QZKK0706);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41802002 and 91855205);the Strategic Priority Research Program(B)of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB26000000)。
The overall occurrence,stratigraphical distribution,palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographical significances of the ostracod faunas from the Silurian Pulu Formation in the Yalai West Ⅱ section,Nyalam region,southe...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41702011 and Grant No. 41372019)。
The global brachiopod palaeobiogeography of the Mississippian is divided into three realms, six regions, and eight provinces, while that of the Pennsylvanian is divided into three realms, six regions, and nine provinc...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41802002,41872035 and 41702003);Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No. XDB26000000)。
Ostracods are described for the first time from the red-coloured marine sandstones of Arisu section(Arisu red beds)of the Upper Ordovician Tierekeawati Formation in Kalpin area of northwestern Tarim Basin, Xinjiang Uy...
funded by projects CGL2012–30922 and CGL2016–78738-P of the Spanish Government.
A new early Visean coral assemblage has been recorded from turbidite facies in the southern part of the AzrouKhenifra Basin,northwest of Khenifra,central Morocco.The newly discovered Ba Moussa West(BMW)coral fauna inc...
supported by the Scientific Innovative Fund of Gansu Agricultural University(Grant No.066-056001)
Plesiosaurs are one of the common groups of aquatic reptiles in the Mesozoic,which mainly lived in marine environments.Freshwater plesiosaurs are rare in the world,especially from the Jurassic.The present paper report...