The first Elcanidae (Orthoptera, Elcanoidea) from the Daohugou fossil bed of northeastern China [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 A new species of Elcanidae (Orthoptera, Elcanoidea), Parelcana pulchmacula sp. nov., is described based on four new specimens from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of northeastern China. The new species differs from all other known Archelcaninae
He Tian +3 more
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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2023 Abstract Allotheria are an extinct group of mammaliaforms that originally comprised multituberculates, to which ‘haramiyidans’ and gondwanatherians were later added. Phylogenetic relationships of allotherians have remained controversial since the first reports of the allotherian fossils in the 1800s.
Fangyuan Mao +3 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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A bony-crested Jurassic dinosaur with evidence of iridescent plumage highlights complexity in early paravian evolution [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 A number of paravian dinosaurs have been described from the Jurassic Yanliao biota, but these have tended to be morphologically similar to Archaeopteryx. Here, Hu. describe the new paravian dinosaur, Caihong juji gen. et sp. nov., which possesses a suite
Dongyu Hu +9 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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<p>Figure S1 (sampling horizons and outcrops), Figure S2 (cathodoluminescence images of all zircons dated in this study), Figure S3 (weighted average age graphs as supplements to Figure 7), and Table S1 (results of SIMS U-Pb zircon dating).</p>
null et al., Zu-Yang Zou
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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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New Spinicaudatan Species of Late Jurassic Linglongta Phase of Yanliao Biota from Western Liaoning, China. [PDF]
Zool Stud, 2020 Li G.
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A new haramiyidan mammal from the Jurassic Yanliao Biota and comparisons with other haramiyidans
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019 Fang-Yuan Mao, Jin Meng
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