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05 2013
The Sino-American field expedition in the Shishugou Formation at the Wucaiwan locality in the Junggar Basin north of the Tian Shan in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region, co-led by Dr. XU Xing, Institute of Vertebrate ...
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03 2013
The Pliocene (5.3–2.6 Million years ago) of Tibet witnessed the drying of the northern Tibetan Plateau and the approach to the Pleistocene Ice Age within the background of intensifying Indian and East Asian monso...
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03 2013
Thalattosaurs, literally meaning “ocean lizard”, are a group of prehistoric marine reptiles living during the Triassic Period in North America and Eurasia. They bore a superficial resemblance to lizards, but the...
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03 2013
Enantiornithes is an extinct group of primitive birds, and almost all retained teeth and clawed fingers on each wing. Although the teeth range in overall morphology, caudal curvature, lateral compression and size,...
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03 2013
Most ornithuromorph birds from the Jehol Group are based on single specimens, or represented by fairly fragmentary materials. As one of the earliest-known beaked ornithuromorph birds, Archaeorhynchus spathula is i...
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03 2013
Paleoanthropologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Washington University in St. Louis, reported a neurocranial abnormality previously unde...
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03 2013
In an article published online March 17 in Nature, researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Shandong Tianyu Museum of Natural His...
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03 2013
Recent discoveries of large leg feathers in some theropods have implications for our understanding of the evolution of integumentary features on the avialan leg, and particularly of their relevance for the origin ...
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03 2013
The Gonglou Paleolithic site (23°45.568′N, 106°42.210′E) in Baise (Bose) basin is located on the fourth terrace of the south bank of the Youjiang River in Tianyang county, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and...
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03 2013
Although a relatively large number of late Middle Pleistocene hominins have been found in East Asia, these fossils have not been consistently included in current debates about the origin of anatomically modern hum...
