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New Study Showing Pelvic Girdles Arose Before the Origin of Movable Jaws Almost all gnathostomes or jawed vertebrates (including osteichthyans, chondrichthyans, ‘acanthodians’ and most placoderms) possess paired pectoral and pelvic fins. To date, it has generally been believed that antiarch placoderms (extinct armoured jawed fishes from the Silurian–Devonian periods) lacked pelvic fins. As Parayunnanolep...
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First-Known Ginglymodian Fish Found from the Middle Triassic of Eastern Yunnan Province, China First-Known Ginglymodian Fish Found from the Mi...
The Ginglymodi are a group of ray-finned fishes that make up one of three major subdivisions of the infraclass Neopterygii. Extant ginglymodians are represented by gars, which inhabit freshwater environments of North and Central America and Cuba. ...
Mammalian Fossil First-ever Found in the Cenozoic Deposits of the Lunpola Basin, Northern Tibet Mammalian Fossil First-ever Found in the Cenozo...
Dr. DENG Tao, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, found a rhinocerotid fossil in the upper part of the Dingqing Formation at the Lunbori locality in Baingoin County...
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IVPP ZHOU Zhonghe Elected Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences IVPP ZHOU Zhonghe Elected Member of Chinese Aca...
 
 
Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe, professor and director of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was elected member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, according to the announcement released by CAS ...
The Economist: What Dinosaurs Ate--The Belly of the Beast The Economist: What Dinosaurs Ate--The Belly of...
More New Ootypes Of Dinosaur Eggs Found in the Late Cretaceous Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, China   New Material of <em>Gansus yumenensis</em>, a basal ornithurine bird   a galeaspid, Shuyu zhejiangensis, provides the first real evidence for the steps that led to the evolutionary origin of jawed vertebrates   a new eosauropterygian, Diandongosaurus acutidentatus   A New Captorhinid Reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis   Liaoconodon hui, Fossil Mammal With Transitional Middle Ear   Canine Tooth from Peking Man Identified in Sweden   Xilousuchus sapingensis, oldest known member of Archosauria   Kunpengopterus sinensis   Darwinopterus linglongtaensis  
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