Feixiang Wu

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

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Tao Su

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Tao Deng

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

Zhe‐Kun Zhou

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Teresa E.V. Spicer

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Robert A. Spicer

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jian Huang

Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University

Jia Liu

Jiangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Paul J. Valdes

University of Bristol

Qiang Li

Qujing Normal University

Shufeng Li

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

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Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden

Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology

University of Bristol

Peking University

American Museum of Natural History

The Open University

Nanjing University

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Tertiary water striders (Hemiptera, Gerromorpha, Gerridae) from the central Tibetan Plateau and their palaeobiogeographic implications

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences (2017)

Chenyang Cai Diying Huang Feixiang Wu Min Zhao Ning Wang

Gerridae

10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.12.014

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Guiclupea superstes, gen. et sp. nov., the youngest ellimmichthyiform (clupeomorph) fish to date from the Oligocene of South China

PeerJ (2021)

Gengjiao Chen Mee-mann Chang Feixiang Wu Xiaowen Liao

A new ellimmichthyiform, Guiclupea superstes , gen. et sp. nov., from the Oligocene Ningming Formation of Ningming Basin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, South China is described herein. With relatively large body size, parietals meeting at the midline, anterior ceratohyal with a beryciform foramen in the center, a complete predorsal scutes series of very high number and about equally-size scutes with radiating ridges on dorsal surface, first preural centrum unfused with first uroneural but fused with the parhypural, and first ural centrum of roughly the same size as the preural centrum, Guiclupea superstes cannot be assigned to the order Clupeiformes. The phylogenetic analyses using parsimony and Bayesian inference methods with Chanos / Elops as outgroup respectively suggests that the new form is closer to ellimmichthyiform genus Diplomystus than to any other fishes, although there are some discrepancies between the two criteria and different outgroups used. It shares with Diplomystus the high supraoccipital crest, pelvic-fin insertion in advance of dorsal fin origin, and the number of predorsal scutes more than 20. The new form represents the youngest ellimmichthyiform fish record in the world. Its discovery indicates that the members of the Ellimmichthyiformes had a wider distribution range and a longer evolutional history than previously known.

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10.7717/peerj.11418

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A new species of Saurichthys (Actinopterygii: Saurichthyidae) extends its group's range to the Late Triassic in eastern Tethys

EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts (2019)

Gengyu Fang Feixiang Wu Sun Yuan-lin Cheng Ji

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Biotic interchange through lowlands of Tibetan Plateau suture zones during Paleogene

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology (2019)

Jia Liu Tao Su Robert A. Spicer He Tang Wei‐Yu‐Dong Deng

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Samara

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10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.02.022

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Pliocene flora and paleoenvironment of Zanda Basin, Tibet, China

Science China Earth Sciences (2019)

Jian Huang Tao Su Shufeng Li Feixiang Wu Tao Deng

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East Asian Monsoon

10.1007/s11430-019-9475-2

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Reply to Springer and Gatesy: The impact of long branches and misalignments on phylogenetic analysis is minimal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)

Shaoyuan Wu Frank E. Rheindt Jin Zhang Jiajia Wang Lei Zhang

Large volumes of liquid water transiently existed on the surface of Mars more than 3 billion years ago. Much of this water is hypothesized to have been sequestered in the subsurface or lost to space. We use rock physics models and Bayesian inversion to ...

10.1073/pnas.2409344121

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Integrative Neogene stratigraphy, biotas and paleogeographic evolution of the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding area

Science China Earth Sciences (2023)

Tao Deng Xiaomin Fang Qiang Li Shiqi Wang Feixiang Wu

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10.1007/s11430-022-1115-5

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Lampreys underwent radical changes in ecology and morphology during the Jurassic era

Research Square (Research Square) (2023)

Feixiang Wu Philippe Janvier Chi Zhang

Abstract Lampreys, the oldest living jawless vertebrates, represent an iconic model in evolutionary biology and are always intriguing for their bizarre feeding behavior of sucking blood or gouging out tissues from their victims. They seemingly underwent few changes in morphology and feeding habit since their first appearance in the Late Devonian. However, their evolutionary history is not so simple, as demonstrated by two superbly preserved large lampreys from the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota of North China. These fossils present radical changes in the feeding apparatus, body size, and life-history strategy of their group during the Jurassic era and paved the way for the origin of living lampreys. Their extensively toothed feeding structures are radically different from the simply structured dentition of their unusually small-sized and probably non-predatory Palaeozoic relatives but surprisingly resemble the Southern Hemisphere pouched lamprey, which foreshadows an ancestral flesh-eating habit for modern lampreys. In the petromyzontiform timetree recalibrated on the basis of these stem lampreys, the evolutionary increase of lampreys’ body size accompanied the establishment of the modern-type three-phased life cycle, which was likely triggered by the concurrent evolutionary thinning of the body integument of their most significant piscine hosts in the Early Jurassic. Our study also places modern lampreys’ origin in the Southern Hemisphere of the Late Cretaceous, followed by an early Cenozoic anti-tropical disjunction in distribution, hence challenging the conventional wisdom of their biogeographical pattern arising from a recent origin in the Northern Hemisphere or the tectonic fragmentation of Pangean supercontinent as far back as 200 million years ago.

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-2414749/v1

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Data from: The rise of predation in Jurassic lampreys

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2023)

Feixiang Wu Philippe Janvier Chi Zhang

10.5281/zenodo.8280708

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The molecular evolution of feathers with direct evidence from fossils

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2019)

Yanhong Pan Wenxia Zheng Roger H. Sawyer Michael W. Pennington Xiaoting Zheng

Dinosaur fossils possessing integumentary appendages of various morphologies, interpreted as feathers, have greatly enhanced our understanding of the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, as well as the origins of feathers and avian flight. In extant birds, the unique expression and amino acid composition of proteins in mature feathers have been shown to determine their biomechanical properties, such as hardness, resilience, and plasticity. Here, we provide molecular and ultrastructural evidence that the pennaceous feathers of the Jurassic nonavian dinosaur Anchiornis were composed of both feather β-keratins and α-keratins. This is significant, because mature feathers in extant birds are dominated by β-keratins, particularly in the barbs and barbules forming the vane. We confirm here that feathers were modified at both molecular and morphological levels to obtain the biomechanical properties for flight during the dinosaur-bird transition, and we show that the patterns and timing of adaptive change at the molecular level can be directly addressed in exceptionally preserved fossils in deep time.

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10.1073/pnas.1815703116

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