Dr. XU Guanghui, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his colleague reported the discovery of a new ionoscopiform, Panxianichthys imparilis, on the basis of two well preserved specimens from the Middle Triassicof the Guanling Formation exposed in Xinmin of Panxian County, western Guizhou, China.It is the most primitive ionoscopiform fish, and provides new insight on the early evolution of this clade

Dr. HOU Sukuan from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences reported a new species of muntiacine Euprox in the journal of Zootaxa 3911 (1) recently. The new species, Euprox grandis sp. nov., is established based on a skull and a pair of antlers from the same individual and a pair of isolated antlers collected from the Late Miocene Liushu Formation of the Linxia Basin in Gansu Province, northwestern China. It is the largest known muntiacine.

In a paper published online January 07 in the journal of Biology Letters (11), Dr. XU Guanghui, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IVPP), and his collaborators from Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in Hangzhou, China, reported the discovery of a new thoracopterid fish on the basis of six well-preserved specimens from the Ladinian (235–242 million years ago) marine deposits of Xingyi in Guizhou Province, China. Phylogenetic studies suggested that the evolution of overwater gliding of thoracopterids was gradual in nature, i.e., a four-stage adaption following the ‘cranial specialization–asymmetrical caudal fin–enlarged paired fins–scale reduction’ sequence being recognized in thoracopterid evolution.