Acta Palaeobotanica, 2017 A late Middle–early Late Jurassic fossil plant assemblage recently excavated from two Callovian– Oxfordian sites in the vicinity of the Daohugou fossil locality in eastern Inner Mongolia, China, was analysed in detail.
CHRISTIAN POTT, BAOYU JIANG
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Temporal framework for the Yanliao Biota and timing of the origin of crown mammals
Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 Establishing the temporal sequence of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota is essential as it anchors the timing of many key evolutionary innovations in vertebrates. Lack of sufficiently reliable high-precision ages of fossil-bearing horizons hinders our ability to reconstruct the tempo and mode of vertebrate evolution.
Zhiqiang Yu +15 more
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A new species of Darwinopterus (Wukongopteridae, Pterosauria) from western Liaoning provides some new information on the ontogeny of this clade [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasThe Wukongopteridae is an important pterosaur clade from the Yanliao Biota, combining features of basal and derived pterosaurs. So far, the Wukongopteridae consists of five species divided into three genera: Wukongopterus lii, Darwinopterus modularis ...
XIN CHENG +7 more
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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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New anatomical information of the wukongopterid Kunpengopterus sinensis Wang et al., 2010 based on a new specimen [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 The Wukongopteridae compose a non-pterodactyloid clade of pterosaurs that are the most abundant flying reptiles in the deposits of the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota.
Xin Cheng +3 more
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Earliest filter-feeding pterosaur from the Jurassic of China and ecological evolution of Pterodactyloidea [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Pterosaurs were a unique clade of flying reptiles that were contemporaries of dinosaurs in Mesozoic ecosystems. The Pterodactyloidea as the most species-diverse group of pterosaurs dominated the sky during Cretaceous time, but earlier phases of their ...
Chang-Fu Zhou +5 more
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The rise of feathered dinosaurs: Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, the oldest dinosaur with 'feather-like' structures. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Diverse epidermal appendages including grouped filaments closely resembling primitive feathers in non-avian theropods, are associated with skeletal elements in the primitive ornithischian dinosaur Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus from the Kulinda locality in ...
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Elaborate plumage patterning in a Cretaceous bird. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Integumentary patterns and colors can differentiate species, sexes, and life changes and can inform on habitat and ecology. However, they are rarely preserved in the fossil record. Here, we report on an extremely well-preserved specimen of the Cretaceous
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Acta Geologica Sinica - English Edition, 2016 AbstractThe northeastern Chinese Yanliao Biota (sometimes called the Daohugou Biota) comprises numerous, frequently spectacular fossils of non‐marine organisms, occurring in Middle‐Upper Jurassic strata in western Liaoning, northern Hebei, and southeastern Inner Mongolia.
Xing XU +4 more
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and biostratinomic analysis of the Jurassic Yanliao Lagerstätte in northeastern China [PDF]
, 2018 The Middle-Upper Jurassic Yanliao Lagerstätte contains numerous exceptionally preserved fossils of aquatic and land organisms, including insects, salamanders, dinosaurs, pterosaurs and mammaliaforms.
Benton, Michael J. +8 more
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