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A new macrofossil ephedroid plant with unusual bract morphology from the Lower Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of northeastern China
BackgroundThe evolution of the Jehol Biota of western Liaoning in China includes three phases, initiation in the Dabeigou phase, radiation in the...
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Hydrocarbon generation and migration in the Fuxin Basin during the Cretaceous evolution of the North China Craton, NE China
The extensive thinning and destruction of North China Craton (NCC) during the Early Cretaceous led to the development of numerous rift basins and...
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A new toothless pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota with comments on the Chaoyangopteridae
The Chaoyangopteridae is a clade of azhdarchoid pterosaurs that stands out in China, particularly in the Jehol Biota, as a Cretaceous group of...
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Roles of Multisourced Fluids in the Formation of Sandstone-Hosted Uranium Deposits in the SW Songliao Basin, NE China
The sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in the SW Songliao Basin differ from typical sandstone-hosted uranium deposits in terms of the geological...
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Middle ear innovation in Early Cretaceous eutherian mammals
The middle ear ossicles in modern mammals are repurposed from postdentary bones in non-mammalian cynodonts. Recent discoveries by palaeontological...
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Intra-gastric phytoliths provide evidence for folivory in basal avialans of the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota
Angiosperms became the dominant plant group in early to middle Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems, coincident with the timing of the earliest pulse of...
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Paleoclimatic and Paleogeographic Reconstructions of Sedimentation Conditions in the Fushun Basin Using Methods of Mathematical Statistics
AbstractThe relationship between climate changes and sedimentation conditions for four accumulation stages of the Fuxing and Shahai coal-bearing...
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Powered flight in hatchling pterosaurs: evidence from wing form and bone strength
Competing views exist on the behaviour and lifestyle of pterosaurs during the earliest phases of life. A ‘flap-early’ model proposes that hatchlings...
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Extended embryo retention and viviparity in the first amniotes
The amniotic egg with its complex fetal membranes was a key innovation in vertebrate evolution that enabled the great diversification of reptiles,...
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A new confuciusornithid bird with a secondary epiphyseal ossification reveals phylogenetic changes in confuciusornithid flight mode
The confuciusornithids are the earliest known beaked birds, and constitute the only species-rich clade of Early Cretaceous pygostylian birds that...
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A new wing skeleton of the Jehol tapejarid Sinopterus and its implications for ontogeny and paleoecology of the Tapejaridae
The tapejarid pterosaurs flourished in the Jehol Biota with an abundance of immature individuals and a rarity of individuals at skeletal maturity....
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Economic evaluation of rock oil project based on AHP algorithm
In order to reveal the characteristics of oil shale, the distribution of oil shale and the potential of resources in Jianchang Basin. The selection...
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Preservation of corneous β-proteins in Mesozoic feathers
Fossil proteins are valuable tools in evolutionary biology. Recent technological advances and better integration of experimental methods have...
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A New Eobaatarid Multituberculate (Mammalia) from the Lower Cretaceous Fuxin Formation, Fuxin-Jinzhou Basin, Liaoning, Northeastern China
Five multituberculate species have been reported to date from the upper Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Shahai and Fuxin formations in Liaoning...
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Study on the Jehol Biota: Recent advances and future prospects
The Jehol Biota is an Early Cretaceous terrestrial fossil assemblage of paramount significance, and its core distribution areas are western Liaoning,...
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Characteristics of Lower Cretaceous Strata, Reservoirs, and Seals
The Bongor Basin is a Cretaceous-Cenozoic continental rift basin formed on Precambrian crystalline basement rock. Sedimentation and filling of the...
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Fossoriality and evolutionary development in two Cretaceous mammaliamorphs
Mammaliamorpha comprises the last common ancestor of Tritylodontidae and Mammalia plus all its descendants
1 . Tritylodontids are nonmammaliaform...
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Characteristics and evolution of inertinite abundance and atmospheric pO2 during China’s coal-forming periods
Coal, especially the inertinite in it, is highly sensitive to climate changes, showing an obvious response to paleoclimate conditions, in particular,...
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Author Correction: An Early Cretaceous pterosaur with an unusual mandibular crest from China and a potential novel feeding strategy
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Compressions of Sequoia (Cupressaceae sensu lato) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia, China
The specimens (two pairs of part and counterpart) of coniferalean branched leafy shoots were collected from the Jiulongshan Formation (Middle...
