A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the upper jurassic of Southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEast Asian non-neosauropodan eusauropods have been central to the study of the evolution of Middle to Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs. Despite their remarkable diversity, the fragmentary condition of many taxa and the insufficiency of phylogenetic data ...
Hui Dai +6 more
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A new Early Jurassic dinosaur represents the earliest-diverging and oldest sauropodomorph of East Asia [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA new dinosaur assemblage from the Lower Jurassic at Wande Town, Wuding County, Yunnan Province, China is discovered recently. Here a new sauropodomorph from this site, Wudingloong wui gen. et sp.
Ya-Ming Wang +8 more
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A new pterosaur tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous of Wuerho, Junggar Basin, China: inferring the first putative pterosaur trackmaker [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 We report the discovery of 114 small pterosaur footprints preserved in a greyish-green fine sandstone slab comprising 57 manus imprints and 57 pes imprints. Due to the chaotic distribution of footprints, the trackways are difficult to recognize.
Yang Li, Xiaolin Wang, Shunxing Jiang
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New anatomical information on Dsungaripterus weii Young, 1964 with focus on the palatal region [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Pterosaur specimens with complete and well-preserved palatal region are rare. Here we describe new and previously collected specimens of the pterodactyloid pterosaur Dsungaripterus weii that are three-dimensionally preserved and provide new anatomical ...
He Chen +7 more
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A new istiodactylid pterosaur, Lingyuanopterus camposi gen. et sp. nov., from the Jiufotang Formation of western Liaoning, China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 The Istiodactylidae is a group of pterodactyloids characterised by large nasoantorbital fenestrae and labiolingually compressed teeth, with several records reported from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China and western Europe.
Yizhi Xu, Shunxing Jiang, Xiaolin Wang
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Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur Caudipteryx
Communications Biology, 2021 Zheng et al. report on the presence of nuclear preservation in the femoral cartilage of a specimen of Caudipteryx, a theropod dinosaur. They identify the presence of chromatin threads for only the second time in any vertebrate fossil.
Xiaoting Zheng +4 more
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Cretaceous bird with dinosaur skull sheds light on avian cranial evolution
Nature Communications, 2021 In addition to major innovations in their locomotor system, early birds evolved highly derived skulls. Here, Wang et al. three dimensionally reconstruct the skull of a new enantiornithine bird from the Early Cretaceous that illustrates the early avialan ...
Min Wang +4 more
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The rapid evolution of lungfish durophagy
Nature Communications, 2022 It is unclear how Lungfishes evolved durophagy, the consumption of hard prey, despite being the longest lineage of vertebrates with this feeding mechanism. Here, the authors describe exceptionally preserved fossils of Youngolepis from the Early Devonian,
Xindong Cui +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 In this paper, seven coprolites from the Lower Cretaceous of Tsagan-Tsab formation have been described. Thus, producing a significant contribution to what we perceived as the first detailed study of coprolites from the Mesozoic deposits in Mongolia.
Paul Rummy, Kazim Halaclar, He Chen
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New information on the Wukongopteridae (Pterosauria) revealed by a new specimen from the Jurassic of China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur group discovered from Yanliao Biota, because it combines character states seen in non-pterodactyloid and pterodactyloid pterosaurs.
Xin Cheng +3 more
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