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05 2012
Several hundred disarticulated bones have been recovered from a large dinosaur quarry of the Upper Cretaceous Yuliangzi Formation at the base of the Wulaga outcrop of Heilongjiang Province near the Sino-Russian bo...
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05 2012
The 1988 China-Canada dinosaur expedition to Bayan Mandahu, Wulatehouqi (Urat Rear Banner), Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) produced many Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils. Among them, a small, partial theropod hindl...
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04 2012
Phytosaurs are generally considered to have become extinct at the end of the Triassic Period, but several records have suggested that they survived into the basal Jurassic in Europe and Asia. The Asian record cons...
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04 2012
The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation and clim...
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03 2012
Among sarcopterygians (lobe-finned fishes and tetrapods), coelacanths are known for their evolutionary conservatism. Epitomized by the legendary living fossil Latimeria, the distinctive body plan of anatomically m...
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04 2012
Palaeontologists have known for more than a decade that some small dinosaurs had bird-like feathers, mainly thanks to beautifully preserved fossils from northeastern China. Now three specimens of a new tyrannosaur...
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03 2012
The fossil record shows that the pectoral girdles of early osteichthyans retained part of the primitive gnathostome pectoral girdle condition with spines and/or other dermal components. However, very little is kno...
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03 2012
Although paleontologists have greatly increase the pterosaur diversity in the last decades, particularly due to discoveries made in western Liaoning, China, very little is known regarding pterosaur biogeography. A...
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03 2012
The research of Chinese pterosaurs has made remarkable contributions to the study of those flying reptiles. Most specimens were unearthed from the Yixian and Jiufotang formations of western Liaoning, China. More r...
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03 2012
The evolutionary relationships among Mammuthus, Palaeoloxodon and Elephas within the tribe Elephantini is still not quite clear. In China, the best fossil materials of elephantid ever recovered are exclusively att...
