Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period

Autor: Tian Gan, Taiyi Luo, Ke Pang, Chuanming Zhou, Guanghong Zhou, Bin Wan, Gang Li, Qiru Yi, Andrew D. Czaja, Shuhai Xiao

Publikováno v: Nature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2021)

Fungi may have evolved up to 2.4 billion years ago, but it is unclear when they first colonized land. Here Gan and colleagues report filamentous Ediacaran microfossils from South China that may represent early terrestrial fungi.

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Hummingbird-sized dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Myanmar

Autor: Qiru Yi, Gang Li, Lida Xing, Luis M. Chiappe, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Lars Schmitz, Ryan C. McKellar

Publikováno v: Nature. 579:245-249

Skeletal inclusions in approximately 99-million-year-old amber from northern Myanmar provide unprecedented insights into the soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of minute fauna, which are not typically preserved in other depositional environments1–3.

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2068-4

Reply to Li et al. 'Is Oculudentavis a bird or even archosaur?'

Autor: Gang Li, Luis M. Chiappe, Lars Schmitz, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Lida Xing, Qiru Yi, Ryan C. McKellar

We welcome any new interpretation or alternative hypothesis regarding the taxonomic affinity of the enigmatic Oculudentavis khaungraae. However, here we demonstrate that Li et al. have failed to provide conclusive evidence for the reidentification of

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https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.12.147041

A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber

Autor: Lida Xing, Xing Xu, Ryan C. McKellar, Alexander P. Wolfe, Philip J. Currie, Gang Li, Ming Bai, Hao Ran, Jianping Zhang, Qiru Yi, W. Scott Persons, Tetsuto Miyashita, Michael J. Benton, Kuo-Wei Tseng

Publikováno v: Xing, L, McKellar, R C, Xu, X, Li, G, Bai, M, Persons, W S, Miyashita, T, Benton, M J, Zhang, J, Wolfe, A P, Yi, Q, Tseng, K, Ran, H & Currie, P J 2016, ' A Feathered Dinosaur Tail with Primitive Plumage Trapped in Mid-Cretaceous Amber ', Current Biology, vol. 26, no. 24, pp. 3352-3360 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.008

Summary In the two decades since the discovery of feathered dinosaurs [1–3], the range of plumage known from non-avialan theropods has expanded significantly, confirming several features predicted by developmentally informed models of feather evolu

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.10.008

Retraction Note: Hummingbird-sized dinosaur from the Cretaceous period of Myanmar

Autor: Luis M. Chiappe, Qiru Yi, Ryan C. McKellar, Lida Xing, Jingmai K. O’Connor, Gang Li, Lars Schmitz

Publikováno v: Nature. 584:652-652

Skeletal inclusions in approximately 99-million-year-old amber from northern Myanmar provide unprecedented insights into the soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of minute fauna, which are not typically preserved in other depositional environments1–3.

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2553-9