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06 2011
Holotype of Nannocricetus wuae (by Zhang et al.)
Dr. Zhang Zhao-Qun, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleagues, recently described a new c...
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06 2011
Virtual endocrania of Ailuropoda microta(A), the Late Pleistocene A. baconi (B),
extant A. melanoleuca (C) and Ursus maritimus (D). (By Dong Wei and Zhang Jue-Fei)
Dong Wei and Zhang Juefei, Paleontol...
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06 2011
SU De-Zao, a retired paleoichthyologist of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, found a new paleogene leuciscin fish, Tianshanicus liui sp. nov., in the Anjihaih...
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05 2011
The marine Triassic deposits in southwestern China have yielded numerous vertebrate fossils (ichthyosaurians, sauropterygians, thalattosaurians, and fishes). A new eosauropterygian, Diandongosaurus acutidentatus g...
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05 2011
A new captorhinid reptile, Gansurhinus qingtoushanensis, gen. et sp. nov., was found from Xidagou Formation (Middle Permian) at Qingtoushan (Dashankou) locality near Yumen, Gansu Province, and from Naobaogou Forma...
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05 2011
The two major lineages of extant archosaurs, crocodylians and avians, diverged in the Triassic, but the details and timing of this event are incompletely understood. It is hard to identify early archosaurs because...
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05 2011
Paleontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Swedish colleagues from Uppsala University, recently identified a unique canine tooth from P...
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04 2011
The transference of post-dentary jaw elements to the cranium of mammals as auditory ossicles is one of the central topics in evolutionary biology of vertebrates. Homologies of these bones among jawed vertebrates h...
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04 2011
Paleontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy, have just announced the discovery of Zhuchengtyrannus magnus, a.k.a. "Tyrant from Zhucheng," which was not o...
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03 2011
Very little was known about Mesozoic birds until nearly complete skeletons began to be discovered in the now famous Jehol Group deposits of northeastern China. The first few specimens to be found were partial skel...
