The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters
- Min Zhu, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia, Jing Lu, Tuo Qiao, Qingming Qu
- Environmental Science, BiologyNature
- 26 March 2009
The discovery of an exceptionally preserved primitive fish from the Ludlow of Yunnan, China, that represents the oldest near-complete gnathostome (jawed vertebrate) offers insights into the origin and early divergence of osteichthyans, and indicates that the minimum date for the actinopterygian–sarcoperygian split was no later than 419 million years ago.
A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny
- Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, Wei Wang, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia
- Biology, Environmental ScienceNature
- 4 May 2006
This 405-million-year-old fish from the Lower Devonian of Yunnan (China) demonstrates that cosmine in many fossil sarcopterygians arose step by step through the acquisition of a pore–canal network followed by the subsequently developed ability to resorb previous generations of odontodes and enamel.
Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian.
- Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, Jing Lu, Tuo Qiao, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia
- BiologyNature Communications
- 10 April 2012
The earliest known coelacanth skull (Euporosteus yunnanensis sp. nov.) from the Early Devonian (late Pragian) of Yunnan, China is reported, lending support to the possibility that Eoactinistia is also an anatomically modern coelacanths, and provides a more refined reference point for studying the rapid early diversification and subsequent evolutionary conservatism of the coELacanths.
Palaeontology: First Devonian tetrapod from Asia
- Min Zhu, P. Ahlberg, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia
- Environmental Science, GeographyNature
- 19 December 2002
The discovery of the first Devonian tetrapod from Asia is reported, a finding that substantially extends the geographical range of these animals and raises new questions about their dispersal.
Siluro-Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography of China
- Wenjin Zhao, Min Zhu
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 1 March 2010
A Silurian maxillate placoderm illuminates jaw evolution
- Min Zhu, P. Ahlberg, Jing Lu
- Geography, Environmental ScienceScience
- 21 October 2016
A second Silurian maxillate placoderm is described that more securely bridges the jawless toothlike plates of placoderms to the development of the jawed condition that ultimately led to the three-boned jaw in ancestors of modern vertebrates.
The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China.
The enlargement of the cerebral hemispheres and the possible presence of the pars tuberalis in this stem-tetrapod indicate that some important brain modifications related to terrestrial life had occurred at the beginning of the tetrapod evolution, much earlier than previously thought.
A new articulated hybodontoid from Late Permian of northwestern China
- Nian-Zhong Wang, X. Zhang, Min Zhu, Wenjin Zhao
- Environmental Science
- 1 May 2009
Gansuselache, the first articulated hybodontiform from Asia, also represents the first complete hybods from the Permian, which is a shark of about 490 mm total length with a fusiform body.
Geochemical Stratigraphy and Microvertebrate Assemblage Sequences across the Silurian/Devonian Transition in South China
- Wenjin Zhao, Nian-Zhong Wang, Min Zhu, U. Mann, U. Herten, A. Lücke
- Geography
- 1 April 2011
Carbon isotope (δ13Corg) analyses of non‐marine clastic rocks and neritic carbonates and black shales spanning the Silurian/Devonian transition are compared from two richly fossiliferous sequences in…
A review of Silurian fishes from north-western Hunan, China and related biostratigraphy
- Wenjin Zhao, Min Zhu, Z. Gai, Zhaohui Pan, Z. Ciu, J. Cai
- Environmental Science, Geography
- 30 September 2018
The Silurian fishes from north-western Hunan, China are characterised by the earliest known galeaspids Dayongaspis Pan and Zeng, 1985 and Konoceraspis Pan, 1992, and the earliest known antiarch…
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