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Race and the odd history of human paleontology [PDF]
The Anatomical Record Part B: The New Anatomist, 2006 AbstractAlthough the late 17th century witnessed the recognition of fossils as the remains of extinct organisms—because they could be incorporated into the creation story embodied in the Great Chain of Being—acceptance of human antiquity through the indisputable demonstration of the contemporaneity of human bones, stone tools, and accepted fossils was ...
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Scientific Reports, 2023 Sauropterygia is the largest, most successful group of Mesozoic marine diapsids, spanning from the late Early Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Plesiomorphic for sauropterygians, pachypleurosauroids are important for our understanding on the early ...
Guang-Hui Xu +7 more
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The first dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna, China
Scientific Reports, 2021 The Early Cretaceous Hami Pterosaur Fauna in Northwest China preserves a large number of specimens of the sexually dimorphic pteranodontoid pterosaur Hamipterus tianshanensis, including 3D eggs and embryos.
Xiaolin Wang +6 more
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A new genus of sinogaleaspids (Galeaspida, stem-Gnathostomata) from the Silurian Period in Jiangxi, China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Galeaspids are an endemic clade of jawless stem-gnathostomes known as ostracoderms. Their existence illuminates how specific characteristics developed in jawed vertebrates.
Xianren Shan +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Ischyromyids are a group of large rodents with the earliest fossil record known from the late Paleocene (Clarkforkian) of North America; they are considered the earliest fossil representatives of Rodentia of modern aspect.
Łucja Fostowicz-Frelik +2 more
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Hippotherium Datum implies Miocene palaeoecological pattern
Scientific Reports, 2022 Here, we report well–preserved skulls and postcranial specimens of genus Hippotherium from the Linxia Basin, Gansu, China. Based on morphological comparison, the species of Hippotherium in China, Hippotherium weihoense and Hippotherium chiai, should be ...
Boyang Sun +3 more
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Fuyuanichthys wangi gen. et sp. nov. from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of China highlights the early diversification of ginglymodian fishes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 A series of well-preserved fossil assemblages from the Middle Triassic marine rock succession in Southwest China provide unique evidences for studying the early evolution of holostean fishes, including Halecomorphi (e.g., bownfin) and Ginglymodi (e.g ...
Guang-Hui Xu, Xin-Ying Ma, Yi Ren
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Late Paleocene to early Oligocene fire ecology of the south Mongolian highland
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Changes in fire ecology during warm and cold periods in the geological past are important because of their effects on terrestrial ecosystems and the global carbon cycle.
Xinying Zhou +10 more
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East Asian Gene flow bridged by northern coastal populations over past 6000 years
Nature CommunicationsCoastal areas of northern East Asia in the ShanDong region, which show complex cultural transitions in the last 10,000 years, have helped to facilitate population interactions between more inland regions of mainland East Asia and islands such as those in
Juncen Liu +26 more
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New specimens of the multituberculate mammal Sphenopsalis from China: Implications for phylogeny and biology of taeniolabidoids [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 Multituberculates are the most diverse and best known group of Mesozoic mammals; they also persisted into the Paleogene and became extinct in the Eocene, possibly outcompeted by rodents that have similar morphological and presumably ecological ...
Fang-Yuan Mao, Yuan-Qing Wang, Jin Meng
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