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Seismic images of crust and upper mantle beneath Tibet: evidence for Eurasian plate subduction.

• Rainer Kind, Xiaohui Yuan, +8 authors Mei Jiang
• Science
• 2002

Seismic data from central Tibet have been combined to image the subsurface structure and understand the evolution of the collision of India and Eurasia. The 410- and 660-kilometer mantle… (More)

A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones

• Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, +8 authors You’an Zhu
• Nature
• 2013

The gnathostome (jawed vertebrate) crown group comprises two extant clades with contrasting character complements. Notably, Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) lack the large dermal bones that… (More)

The oldest articulated osteichthyan reveals mosaic gnathostome characters

• Min Zhu, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia, Jing Tao Lu, Tuo Qiao, Qingming Qu
• Nature
• 2009

The evolutionary history of osteichthyans (bony fishes plus tetrapods) extends back to the Ludlow epoch of the Silurian period. However, these Silurian forms have been documented exclusively by… (More)

A Devonian predatory fish provides insights into the early evolution of modern sarcopterygians

• Jing Tao Lu, Min Zhu, +4 authors Liantao Jia
• Science advances
• 2016

Crown or modern sarcopterygians (coelacanths, lungfishes, and tetrapods) differ substantially from stem sarcopterygians, such as Guiyu and Psarolepis, and a lack of transitional fossil taxa limits… (More)

A primitive fish provides key characters bearing on deep osteichthyan phylogeny

• Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, Wei Wang, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia
• Nature
• 2006

Osteichthyans, or bony vertebrates, include actinopterygians (teleosts and their relatives) and sarcopterygians (coelacanths, lungfishes and tetrapods). Despite features found in basal… (More)

The earliest known stem-tetrapod from the Lower Devonian of China.

• Jing Tao Lu, Min Zhu, +4 authors Tuo Qiao
• Nature communications
• 2012

Recent discoveries of advanced fish-like stem-tetrapods (for example, Panderichthys and Tiktaalik) have greatly improved our knowledge of the fin-to-limb transition. However, a paucity of fossil data… (More)

Deep seismic reflection evidence for continental underthrusting beneath southern Tibet

• Wenjin Zhao, K. Douglas Nelson, +4 authors Xiang-Yang Liu
• Nature
• 1993

THE Himalaya and adjacent Tibetan plateau, constituting Earth's largest region of elevated topography and anomalously thick crust, formed as a consequence of Cenozoic collision between India and… (More)

A Silurian maxillate placoderm illuminates jaw evolution

• Min Zhu, Per Erik Ahlberg, +5 authors Jing Lu
• Science
• 2016

The discovery of Entelognathus revealed the presence of maxilla, premaxilla, and dentary, supposedly diagnostic osteichthyan bones, in a Silurian placoderm. However, the relationship between these… (More)

Fossil Fishes from China Provide First Evidence of Dermal Pelvic Girdles in Osteichthyans

• Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, +5 authors Jing Tao Lu
• PloS one
• 2012

BACKGROUND The pectoral and pelvic girdles support paired fins and limbs, and have transformed significantly in the diversification of gnathostomes or jawed vertebrates (including osteichthyans,… (More)

Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian.

• Min Zhu, Xiaobo Yu, Jing Tao Lu, Tuo Qiao, Wenjin Zhao, Liantao Jia
• Nature communications
• 2012

Coelacanths are known for their evolutionary conservatism, and the body plan seen in Latimeria can be traced to late Middle Devonian Diplocercides, Holopterygius and presumably Euporosteus. However,… (More)

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