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Correction: A new mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of Southwest China reveals new evolutionary evidence from East Asian eusauropods [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Hui Dai, Xu-Feng Hu, Chao Tan, Xin-Xin Ren, Qing-Yu Ma, Guang-Biao Wei, Hai-Lu You   +6 more
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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, Alida M. Bailleul, Zhiheng Li, Xiaoli Wang, Zhonghe Zhou   +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, Thomas A. Stidham, Zhiheng Li, Xing Xu, Zhonghe Zhou   +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, Matt Friedman, Tuo Qiao, Yilun Yu, Min Zhu   +4 more
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The first record of exceptionally-preserved spiral coprolites from the Tsagan-Tsab formation (lower cretaceous), Tatal, western Mongolia

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, Shunxing Jiang, Xiaolin Wang, Alexander W.A. Kellner   +3 more
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Publisher Correction: Author Correction: The origin of Rhinocerotoidea and phylogeny of Ceratomorpha (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)

Communications Biology, 2021
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01852 ...
Bin Bai, Jin Meng, Chi Zhang, Yan-Xin Gong, Yuan-Qing Wang   +4 more
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Taxonomic revision of Eoalligator (Crocodylia, Brevirostres) and the paleogeographic origins of the Chinese alligatoroids [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
Background. The primarily Neotropical distribution of living alligatoroids raises questions as to when and how the ancestors of Alligator sinensis migrated to China.
Yan-yin Wang, Corwin Sullivan, Jun Liu
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Author Correction: The origin of Rhinocerotoidea and phylogeny of Ceratomorpha (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)

Communications Biology, 2021
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01660-x.
Bin Bai, Jin Meng, Chi Zhang, Yan-Xin Gong, Yuan-Qing Wang   +4 more
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Cultural exchange and integration: archaeometallurgical case study on underneath-blade bronze dagger-axes from Shuangyuan Village Site in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty

Heritage Science, 2022
As typical artifacts of the Ba-Shu culture, bronze dagger-axes have always been highly valued by academia. Underneath-blade bronze dagger-axes were utilized widely in both the Central Plains and southwest China.
Yuexuan Li, Yingdong Yang, Tianyou Wang, Xiaoting Wang, Wugan Luo   +4 more
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