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Oldest Flying Fish Fossil Found in the Middle Triassic of China
Paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhejiang Museum of Natural History and Peking University, reported the discovery of exceptionally well-preserved fossils of a new thoracopterid flying fish from the Middle Triassic of Xingyi City,...
Eastern Eurasian Archaic Humans Featured a Bi-level Nasal Floor as Seen in Neandertals
In an assessment of the nasal floor configurations of the available and sufficiently intact, if still incomplete, paleoanthropologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Washington University and University of Missouri, found that archaic Homo maxilla...
Ontogenetic Studies Indicating the Sternum Formed Differently in Enantiornithines and Ornithuromorphs
In an article online October 9 in Nature Communications, postdoctoral researcher Jingmai O'Connor and Zhou Zhonghe, director of the CAS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) collaborated with Zheng Xiaoting and Wang Xiaoli from Shandong’s Linyi University, reveal for the first time the ...
New Oofamily of Dinosaur Egg Found From the Upper Cretaceous of Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province
Paleontologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, found more than a dozen eggs from the lower member of the Late Cretaceous Chichengshan Formation in Shuangtang, Qiaoxia and Brewery in the Tiantai Basin. These eggs have a distinctive eggshell mic...
New Archosaur Found from the Marine Triassic of Southwestern China
Paleontologist LI Chun, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his research team, reported a new genus and species of archosaur, Diandongosuchus fuyuanensis, a Pseudosuchian reptile, from the Middle Triassic Zhuganpo Member (Ladinian) of the Falang Formati...
New Study Supporting Peking Man an Isolated Population
Paleoanthropologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, used both traditional metrics and recently developed 3D scanning techniques to explore the morphological variations of Peking Man’s skulls at Zhoukoudian Locality 1, and found that the skull...
New Paleolithic Site in Gansu Province, North China
A joint team of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Gansu Provincial Institute of Archaeology found a new paleolithic site at Xujiacheng village, Wanquan Town, Zhuanglang County, Gansu Province on June 29, 2009, and excavation was carried out la...
New Excavations from Shuidonggou Show Initial Appearance of the Late Paleolithic in Northern China
Many behavioral and technological innovations appear in the archaeological record of Eurasia between about 45,000 and 24,000 years ago. This period has been termed the "initial Upper Paleolithic" and is largely associated with movements of modern humans into that part of the world and/or the complex interplay betwee...
Age of Fossil Teeth From Longgupo Cave Determined With Combined ESR/U-Series
A Sino-France research team reported preliminary dating results of seven herbivorous fossil teeth from different archaeological layers of the lowest geological unit (C III) of Longgupo Cave site, Wushan County, Chongqing, China. The obtained US-ESR results published in the July 2012 issue of the Quaternary Geochrono...
New Lagomorph Species Found From The Middle Eocene Of Erden Obo, Nei Mongol
The earliest fossil remains referred to Lagomorpha come from China (Nei Mongol), India (Gujarat), Kyrgyzstan (Batken), and Mongolia (Ömnögovi). The fossil record from China is most abundant and complete. There are six lagomorph genera known from the late Early and Middle Eocene of China. Among them, Dawsonolagus e...
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