supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of CAS;the National Basic Research Program of China;the CAS Hundred-Talent Program;the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the U.S.National Science Foundation
Profound environmental and faunal changes are associated with climatic deterioration during the Eocene-Oligocene transition(EOT)roughly 34 million years ago.Primates are among the most environmentally sensitive of all...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.40432003 and 40662001);State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy(Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,CAS)(Grant No.063106);Cypriniformes Tree of life under the U.S.National Science Foundation to R.Mayden(Grant No. EFO431326),and the Culture Department of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region
Here we describe tHuashancyprinus robustispinus, gen. et sp. nov, a fossil cyprinin fish from the Oligocene of Ningming Ba- sin, Guangxi, South China. It differs from all other cyprinin fishes in the following apomorp...