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https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-205-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-205-2020
Research article
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01 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 01 Dec 2020

The youngest occurrence of embolomeres (Tetrapoda: Anthracosauria) from the Sunjiagou Formation (Lopingian, Permian) of North China

Jianye Chen and Jun Liu

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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.