New cleroid beetles from the Middle–Late Jurassic of China [PDF]
, 2019 Four specimens of fossil beetles recorded from the Middle and Late Jurassic boundary beds of Inner Mongolia, China are assigned to the melyrid lineage of Cleroidea. Three of them are described as Sinomelyris praedecessor gen. et sp. nov.
Diying Huang, Jiří Kolibáč
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Two anurognathid pterosaur specimens from the Yanliao Biota and a new interpretation of anurognathid skulls [PDF]
古脊椎动物学报 (中英文版)Anurognathids are a clade of small, early-diverging non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs distributed across Eurasia from the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous.
TONG Shi-Da, JIANG Shun-Xing, CHENG Xin, WANG Xiao-Lin
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New spiders (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) from the Jurassic Yanliao Biota of China
Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2019 Several new spider specimens, belonging to the superfamily Palpimanoidea, are described from the Middle–Upper Jurassic Haifanggou Formation (early assemblage of the Yanliao Biota) of Inner Mongolia, China. Two new genera and species, and a new species in the genus Sinaranea Selden, Huang & Ren, 2008, are described. Caestaranea jurassica gen. et sp.
Selden, Paul +2 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2018 A new fossil genus and species of Sinoalidae, Stictocercopis wuhuaensis gen. et sp. n., from the Middle to Upper Jurassic Haifanggou Formation at Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, northeastern China is described, illustrated and its systematic position discussed,
Yan-Zhe FU, Di-Ying HUANG
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Intraskeletal histovariability, allometric growth patterns, and their functional implications in bird-like dinosaurs [PDF]
, 2018 With their elongated forelimbs and variable aerial skills, paravian dinosaurs, a clade also comprising modern birds, are in the hotspot of vertebrate evolutionary research.
Adriaens, Dominique +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2017 A new progonocimicid bug named Cicadocoris parvus sp. n. is described from the mid-Jurassic Haifanggou Formation at Daohugou, Ningcheng County, Inner Mongolia, northeastern China.
Jia-Qian JIANG, Di-Ying HUANG
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Integrated phylogenomic and fossil evidence of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) reveal a Permian-Triassic co-origination with insectivores [PDF]
, 2020 Stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) are a distinctive insect order whose members are characterised by mimicking various plant tissues such as twigs, foliage, and bark.
Cai, Chenyang +4 more
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Quantitative investigation of pengornithid enantiornithine diet reveals macrocarnivorous ecology evolved in birds by Early Cretaceous [PDF]
, 2023 The diet of Mesozoic birds is poorly known, limiting evolutionary understanding of birds’ roles in modern ecosystems. Pengornithidae is one of the best understood families of Mesozoic birds, hypothesized to eat insects or only small amounts of meat.
Bright, Jen A. +4 more
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A new Jurassic lizard from China [PDF]
, 2019 The Jurassic record of lizards in eastern Asia is poor by comparison with that of the Cretaceous. In China, to date, the only confirmed records from this period are an armoured lizard from Shishugou, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, of probable ...
Dong, L +4 more
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Chemical preservation of tail feathers from Anchiornis huxleyi, a theropod dinosaur from the Tiaojishan Formation (Upper Jurassic, China) [PDF]
, 2020 A panel of geochemical techniques is used here to investigate the taphonomy of fossil feathers preserved in association with the skeleton of the Jurassic theropod Anchiornis huxleyi.
Arai K. M. +15 more
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