Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Jun Liu
Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Life and
Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044, China
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Chinese Academy
of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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In this paper, we describe a new species of embolomere from 255-million-year-old fossil beds from northern China. This group of ancient animals is closely related to amniotes (reptiles, birds, and mammals) and was previously thought to have gone extinct around 273 million years ago. The new discovery indicates that North China, with its ancient tropical rain forest, became a last reservoir for these animals right before the end-Permian mass extinction.
In this paper, we describe a new species of embolomere from 255-million-year-old fossil beds...