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Footprints of Cat-size Stegosaur found, Tugulu Group, Xinjiang, China
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
Tiny Cat-Sized Dinosaur Leaves the Smallest Stegosaur Footprint Ever Discovered by Paleontologists University of Queensland, SciTechDaily, April 17, 2021 Xing, L., Lockley, M.G., Persons IV, W.S., Klein, H., Romilio, A., Wang, D. and Wang, M., 2021. Stegosaur track assemblage from Xinjiang, China, featuring the smallest known stegosaur record. Palaios, 36(2), pp.68-76 Yours, Paul H. -
Is this a petrified wood? It is from Xinjiang, China. It measures 30x19x16cm
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This fish fossil is said to be from Jehol, Liaoning. It however looks like a Uighuroniscus sinkiangensis from Xinjiang to me. Any idea which species it is? Many thanks.
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World's oldest and most complex trees reported from China
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Fossils from the world's oldest trees reveal complex anatomy never seen before. Intricate web of woody strands inside 374-million-year-old tree trunks point to most complicated trees to have ever grown on Earth, Cardiff University, October 23, 2017 http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/981090-worlds-oldest-and-most-complex-trees https://www.livescience.com/60746-earth-oldest-trees-had-complex-structure.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171023182615.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/caos-rpe102317.php Hong-He Xu, Christopher M. Berry, William E. Stein, Yi Wang, Peng Tang, Qiang Fu. Unique growth strategy in the Earth’s first trees revealed in silicified fossil trunks from China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017; 201708241 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708241114 http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/10/18/1708241114 Yours, Paul H. -
Here's an interesting article about a giant sauropod found in Xinjiang, China: http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendungen/forschak/2267836/ (in German) Xinjiangtitan is truly a giant for its time, with a length of about 100 feet long, far bigger than Bellusaurus and Klamelisaurus (also from the Wucaiwan Formation [=lower Shishugou Formation] of Xinjiang]). Therefore, it's clear that gigantism in sauropods existed 20 million years before Supersaurus and Diplodocus hallorum lumbered through the floodplains of western North America as the largest-ever sauropods of Late Jurassic North America. I'd be curious to see if Xinjiangtitan is as big as the largest Alamosaurus specimen described by Fowler and Sullivan (2011).
