supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.31970223);the Yunnan Province Science and Technology Department(Grant No.202203AP140007);the Yunnan Key Laboratory for the Conservation of Tropical Rainforests and Asian Elephants(Grant No.202305AG070003);the Hainan Institute of National Park(Grant No.KY-24ZK02);the Hainan Province Science and Technology Special Fund(Grant No.ZDYF2023RDYL01)。
The origin of the biota of Hainan Island,China,remains a fundamental scientific problem.Comparative studies on the biota,geological tectonics,and paleomagnetism proposed that during the Eocene,Hainan Island connected ...
Numerous new records of Ferganiella, Podozamites, and Schidolepium, including a new species, Ferganiella ivantsovii sp. nov., are described from the Early Jurassic(Toarcian) Middle Subformation of the Prisayan Formati...
supported by ESF project PRG323 and an Erasmus+scholarship provided under a traineeship agreement between Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and Estonian University of Life Sciences.
Menispermaceae are an angiosperm family of mostly climbing plants distributed throughout tropical regions. The fruits in this family have a strong sclerified endocarp and can be used for reliable species-level identif...
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...
Karl Nagalhard(1881-1978),formerly known as KarlNagel,was a German paleobotcist whose ideaniity remainedobscured due to his surname and career change at a rel-atively young age.He was active in paleobotary between1914...
carried out in the framework of the topic of the state task of the Institute of the Earth's Crust,Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences(Project No.121042700218-2);this work involved the Centre of Geodynamics and Geochronology equipment at the Institute of the Earth's Crust(Grant No.075-15-2021682)。
Two new species of Eretmophyllum Thomas are described from the lower(Toarcian)and upper(Aalenian)Prisayan Formation of the Irkutsk Basin,Eastern Siberia,Russia based on distinct morphological and cuticular features of...
supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(Grant No.2019QZKK0705);the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS(Grant No.XDA20070301);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.42002020,42072024,41988101 and 41922010);the National Natural Science Foundation of China-Natural Environment Research Council of the United Kingdom joint research program(Grant Nos.41661134049 and NE/P013805/1);the Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Paleobiology and Stratigraphy,Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant Nos.203127 and 193117);the West Light Project(Grant No.2020000023)。
Plant fossils play an important role in understanding landscape evolution across the Tibetan Region,as well as plant diversity across wider eastern Asia.Within the last decade or so,paleobotanical investigations withi...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(nos.41922010 and 41988101);a joint research program of NSFC and NERC(Natural Environ-ment Research Council of the UK)(nos.41661134049 and NE/P013805/1);a postdoctoral fellowship and Senior Visiting Scholar funding from XTBG;the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(nos.XDA20070301 and XDB26000000);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition(no.2019QZKK0705)program.
The fossil record evidences an old origin and diversification of Malvaceae in the Northern Hemisphere.The central Tibetan Plateau was at a low elevation with a monsoon influence during the Eocene,allowing the developm...
This work was funded by the State Program(Grant No.0135-2019-0044)of the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The lithological and geochemical composition and conditions of formation of the coal-bearing deposits of the Kizel Coal Basin in the Perm region of the Urals(central Russia)are described using the two most representat...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.41922010,41988101,31800183);a joint research program of NSFC and NERC(Natural Environment Research Council of the UK)(Nos.41661134049,NE/P013805/1);a post-doctoral fellowship from XTBG;the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)(Nos.XDA20070301 and XDB26000000);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition(No.2019QZKK0705)program;the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(No.QYZDB-SSW-SMC016);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association,CAS(Nos.2017103,2017439);and the CAS 135 program(No.2017XTBG-F01);Yunnan Basic Research Projects(No.2019FB026);Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS)“Light of West China”Program.
Menispermaceae are a pantropical and temperate family with an extensive fossil record during the Paleogene period,especially in North America and Europe,but with much less evidence from Asia.The latest fossil evidence...