期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (3)
The filter-feeding organ of some extinct brachiopods is supported by a skeletal apparatus called the brachidium. Although relatively well studied in A......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (4)
Abundant articulated specimens of the oryctocarine trilobite Oryctocarella duyunensis from the lower Cambrian (Stage 4, Series 2) Balang Formation at ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (5)
Hexangulaconulariids (Cambrian stages 1-2) are an extinct group of medusozoan polyps having a biradially symmetrical, fan-shaped periderm that is dist......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (5)
Saetaspongia so far cannot be confidently assigned to any class-level crown group. Clarifying its phylogenetic position requires new information provi......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (3)
Diverse and abundant fossil taxa have been described in the lower Cambrian Shipai Formation in the Three Gorges area of Hubei Province, South China, b......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (4)
The Mesozoic mecopteran family Mesopsychidae has attracted extensive attention by their long proboscis that is presumably associated with pollination ......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (4)
Upper Ordovician strata exposed from the Baiyanhuashan section is the most representative Late Ordovician unit in the northwestern margin of the North......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (2)
Here we report and describe a new assemblage of Thylacocephala (Crustacea) from the late Spathian (Early Triassic) of Chaohu, Anhui Province, South Ch......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (2)
In order to maximize the utility of future studies of trilobite ontogeny, we propose a set of standard practices that relate to the collection, nomenc......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (2)
Eight bryozoan species are described from the Hanchiatien Formation (lower Silurian, Telychian) of southern Chongqing, South China. Four species are n......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (1)
The family dagger Peipiaosteidae contains the genera dagger Peipiaosteus, dagger Stichopterus, dagger Spherosteus, dagger Yanosteus, and dagger Liaost......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (1)
Brachiopod shell accumulations are abundant and diverse in the lower Cambrian strata of Yunnan Province, South China, but most commonly they are compo......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2021; 95 (1)
Calcified cyanobacteria are of considerable research value for reconstructing the ecology of Paleozoic and Mesozoic benthic communities on carbonate p......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2020; 94 (1)
Extant medusozoans (phylum Cnidaria) are dominated by forms showing tetraradial symmetry, but stem-group medusozoans of early Cambrian age collectivel......
期刊: JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY, 2020; 94 (1)
Non-spicular sponges constitute >8% of the extant sponge biodiversity at the species level, yet their evolutionary history is poorly known due to a......