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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,... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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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