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Jiangxispira, a new gastropod genus from the early Triassic of China with remarks on the phylogeny of the heterostropha at the Permian/Triassic boundary
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ABSTRACT-New heterostrophic gastropods are reported from the lowermost part of the Dayie Formation (Early Triassic, Leping, Jiangxi province. China). A new genus Jiang-vi,g.pira (Streptacididae) is described. Jiangxispira yangotuen.vis new genus and new species has an almost discoidal, heterostrophic protoconch that is typical of the largely Paleozoic Streptacididae, yet the teleoconch resembles that of certain Mesozoic opisthobranchs belonging to the Superfamily Cylindrobullinoidea. This character combination in Jiangxispira may indicate a phylogenetic link between the Paleozoic ...
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Catching up with China's past. (paleontology in China)
Magazine article from: Science News
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Letters to the editor
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The uninvited skeleton at the archaeological table: the crisis of paleoanthropology in South Asia in the twenty-first century.
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16 million-yr.-old ape fossils may be link to man
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Her words. (poem)(Special Section: Twenty American Poets)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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