supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(31970383,32370481,2020103006);GDAS Special Project of Science and Technology Development(2022GDASZH-2022010106);Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(2023A1515010962);Pearl River Talent Plan of Guangdong Province(2021QN02N101).
Neuroptera, as a small relic group of Insecta undergoing a rapid species diversification during the Mesozoic Era, is known by diverse extinct endemic lineages preserved as impression fossils and in amber. The current ...
The financial supported was provided by a Sepkoski Grant from the Paleontological Society;King Saud University,Riyadh,Saudi Arabia,Researchers Supporting Project Number RSP 2024R140;Project PDI2021-125585NB-100 of the Spanish Ministry for Science Innovation (MICINN)。
Seven Cornulites species,including a new one—Cornulites leonei n.sp.,are described from the Upper Ordovician Portixeddu Formation(Katian,stage slices Ka2-3)of Sardinia and the Cavá(lower Katian,stage slice Ka2)and E...
financially supported by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.2023324);the Hubei Key Laboratory of Paleontology and Geological Environment Evolution,Wuhan Center of China Geological Survey(PEL-202301);the Science and Technology Fundamental Resources Investigation Program(Grand No.2023FY100900);the Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41802018).
The Middle Devonian ostracods from the Jiwozhai patch reef in Dushan, Guizhou Province, South China were described for the first time in this study. Twenty-nine species belonging to 20 genera were identified and figur...
supported by the General Directorate of Scientific Research and Technological Development“DGRSDT”(Algeria) to Imad Bouchemla and Madani Benyoucef;the Fundamental Research Funds for the Universities of Henan Province (NSFRF200340);the Program for Innovative Research Team (in Science and Technology) of Henan Polytechnic University(T2022-5) to Li-Jun Zhang;“Male Projekty 2022”(Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Silesia in Katowice) to Mariusz A. Salamon。
Early Cretaceous succession of the Oued Fodda Formation in the Ouarsenis Mountains(northwestern Algeria) is mainly composed of marl—limestone alternations, which are subdivided into four informal units(Units 1 to 4),...
the Research Group Linkage Programme of the Alexandervon Humboldt Foundation;financial support by the German Research Foundation(DFG,AL1740/3-1);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDs B26000000);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2019 QZKK0706)。
The Spiti Shale Formation is a widely distributed stratigraphic unit of the passive northern margin of the Indian craton,deposited between the Callovian and earliest Cretaceous.The siliciclastic strata are dominated b...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.41730318)to X.G.Z.and J.Y.;the Innovative Research Fund for Graduate Students of Yunnan University(Grant No.2019228)to X.Y.Y.;the ASSEMBLE,PRC(CNRS,France and NSFC,China);PAI(Univ.Lyon 1,Région Auvergne Rhône Alpes)grants to J.V.
In the recent years,exceptional fossil sites have revealed astonishing details on the anatomy,lifestyles and behaviour of Cambrian animals but surprisingly,very little is known about one of their most vital features,r...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672345,41790455,41772008,and 41861134032);the Scientific Research Equipment Development Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences(YZ201509);the Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan,China(2015HA021,2018FA025,2018IA073,and 2019DG050);the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada(2015-00681);the National Geographic Society,USA(EC0768-15).
Amber from Kachin,Myanmar offers a unique window into mid-Cretaceous ecosystems because it provides large sample sets that span a wide range of taxa preserved in exquisite detail at approximately 99 Ma[1].A fringe ben...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.U1812402);the project of the scientific and technological innovation team of sedimentary deposits in Guizhou Province(No.20185613);the project of the graduate scientific research fund of Guizhou Province(No.YJSCXJH[2019]039);the Project of Young Scientific Talent of Guizhou(No.2016117)。
Fossil plants from the carbonaceous shale of upper part of the Lower Carboniferous Jiujialu Formation in Lindai bauxite deposit fill a gap regarding the distribution of Early Carboniferous flora in Central Guizhou Pro...
The anurognathids are an enigmatic and distinctive clade of small,non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs with an unusual combination of anatomical traits in the head,neck,wings and tail.They are known from very limited remains...
This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41820104002,41772009,and 41661134049);the Russian Foundation for Basic research(Grant No.16-04-00725);the National Research Foundation of South Africa(Incentive Grant No.109531);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS)(No.173101);Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Plant Resources(No.PlantKF04),and the Scientific Research Fund;Hongda Zhang,Sun Yat-sen University.We thank the University of Johannesburg and the Komarov Botanical Institute(institutional research Project No.AAAA-A18-118030690081-1)for financial support for A.A.O.We thank graduate students majoring in plant science at Sun Yat-sen University for participating in the field collection of the fossils.
In this paper,we describe a new species Magnolia nanningensis sp.nov.,based on exceptionally well‐preserved mummified fossil woods from the late Oligocene of the Nanning Basin,Guangxi,South China.The features of thes...