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Study Shows Microblades Connected With Mobile Adaptations in North-Central China
Though present before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, around 24,500–18,300 years ago), microblade technology is uncommon in the lithic assemblages of north-central China until the onset of the Younger Dryas (YD, around 12,900–11,600 years ago). Dr. GAO Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropolog...
Oldest Known Fossil Primate Skeleton Found From the Eocene of Hubei, China
An international team of researchers has announced the discovery of the world’s oldest known fossil primate skeleton representing a previously unknown genus and species named Archicebus achilles. The fossil was unearthed from an ancient lake bed in central China’s Hubei Province, near the course of the modern Yang...
A New Parafaveoloolithid Dino Egg Found From the Pingxiang Basin, Jiangxi Province of China
Dinosaur egg clutches, single eggs, and countless eggshell fragments have been found in the the Upper Cretaceous of the Pingxiang Basin, Jiangxi Province of China since 2002. In an article published in the latest issue of Vertebrata PalAsiatica 51(2), Dr. WANG Xiaolin, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoa...
Two Miocene Hipparion Species Identified From Shihuiba Locality of Lufeng, Yunnan, China
The Shihuiba locality (Lufengpithecus site) at Lufeng, Yunnan is one of the most important Miocene mammal fauna sites in China. The Hipparion (three-toed horse) fossils collected from this locality from 1975 to 1983 were identified as Hipparion sp. 1 and Hipparion sp. 2. Recently, SUN Boyang, a graduate student pale...
Stone Artifacts Unearthed from the Early Paleolithic Site of Danjiangkou Reservoir Area, China
Danjiangkou reservoir is located in the northwest of Hubei Province and southwest of Henan Province at the headwaters area of the Middle Route of the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. In 1994 and 2004, Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Scie...
Incisors of Primitive Rhino Found From the Early Miocene of Linxia Basin in Gansu, China
Aprotodon is a large-sized primitive rhinocerotid form, distinguished by relatively robust and strongly curved lower incisors, and the specialized wide mandibular symphysis, which is similar to that of the hippopotamus. It has been reported from the Late Oligocene Jiaozigou Fauna of the Linxia Basin, but the Early M...
A New Oviraptorid Dinosaur Found from the Upper Cretaceous of Nei Mongol, China
Dr. XU Xing, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team recently carried out several expeditions to Bayan Mandahu, Linhe, Nei Mongol, China, and have unearthed multiple dinosaur, mammal, and lizard specimens. In a paper published in the journal of Ver...
Systematic Position of Archaeopteryx Challenged?
Archaeopteryx has been considered the most primitive and earliest known bird ever since its discovery, and has been placed at the base of Avialae in nearly all numerical phylogenetic analyses. In 2011, a parsimony-based phylogenetic study incorporating information of a new Archaeopteryx-like theropod, Xiaotingia zhe...
New Homonin Site Found in Daoxian County, Hunan Province of China
A joint team from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, and Office for Cultural Relics Administration of Daoxian County, unearthed five hominin teeth and a large number of mammalian fossils from the Fuyan Cave sit...
A Tandem-Horned Rhino From the Late Miocene Of Northwestern China Reveals Origin of the Unicorn Elasmothere
Transition of a nasal horn to a frontal horn in elasmotheres has been difficult to explain, because a major transformational gap exists between nasal-horned ancestors and frontal-horned descendants. In a paper published in May 2013 in the journal of Chinese Science Bulletin (Vol. 58, No. 15), Dr. DENG Tao from the I...
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