Paleoanthropology , which combines the disciplines of paleontology and physical anthropology , is the study of ancient humans as found in fossil Hominidae hominid evidence such as Petrifaction petrifacted bones and footprints. History of paleoanthropology 19th century The science arguably began in the late 19th century when important discoveries occurred that led to the study of human evolution . The discovery of the Neanderthal in Germany , Thomas Huxley s Evidence as to Man s Place in Nature , and Charles Darwin s The Descent of Man were all important to early paleoanthropological research. The modern field of paleoanthropology began in the 19th century with the discovery of Neanderthal man the eponymous skeleton was found in 1856, but there had been finds elsewhere since 1830 , and with evidence of so called caveman cave men . The idea that humans are similar to certain great ape s had been obvious to people for some time, but the idea of the biological evolution of species in general was not legitimized until after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859. Though Darwin s first book on evolution did not address the specific question of human evolution&mdash light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history, was all Darwin wrote on the subject&mdash the implications ... of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP of the Chinese ... of humans and other great apes. It is not well accepted by most researchers in paleoanthropology. ref ... noted Nature journal Nature 2006, 441 155 that paleoanthropology is distinguished as the branch of science ... to Paleoanthropology http www.jqjacobs.net anthro paleo index.html Paleoanthropology in the 1990s ... index.html Fossil Hominids http cogweb.ucla.edu ep Paleoanthropology.html Introduction Aspects of Paleoanthropology http www.becominghuman.org Becoming Human Paleoanthropology, Evolution and Human Origins Category Anthropology Category Physical anthropology Category Paleoanthropology ar ... more details
The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology abbreviated to IVPP zh of People s Republic of China China is a prominent research institution and museum collections repository for fossil s, including many dinosaur and pterosaur specimens many from the Yixian Formation . As its name suggests, research is focused on both paleontology paleontological topics and those relating to human prehistory . The institution, located in Beijing , grew out of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory in 1929 and is its own institution under the Chinese Academy of Sciences . Its staff have increasingly worked internationally, and were authors or coauthors on 45 Nature journal Nature and Science journal Science articles from 1999 to 2005. ref name IVPPpr cite web url http english.ivpp.cas.cn au bi title Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences accessdate 2011 08 10 ref Notable paleontologist s who have been affiliated with the IVPP include Yang Zhongjian aka C. C. Young , Dong Zhiming , and Zhao Xijin . References reflist See also List of museums in China External links http www.ivpp.ac.cn Official website of IVPP http mdata.ivpp.ac.cn 8080 animal language.do?language en The Collections Department of the IVPP Natural history museums in China coord missing Beijing Category Research institutes in China Category Natural history museums in China Category Paleontological research institutes PRChina museum stub paleo stub de Institut f r Wirbeltierpal ontologie und Pal oanthropologie der Chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften no Det kinesiske institutt for virveldyrpaleontologi og paleoantropologi ... more details
Bengawan Solo may refer to Bengawan Solo River , the longest river on the Indonesian island of Java and site of paleoanthropology early hominid remains Bengawan Solo song Bengawan Solo song , a 1940 Indonesian song about the Javanese river by Gesang Martohartono Bengawan Solo company , a baking company in Singapore disambig ... more details
Tsuchikurasaurus meaning Tsuchikura lizard is the nomen nudum informal name given to an undescribed specimen of theropod dinosaur . It lived during the Late Cretaceous in what is now Japan . The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP in Beijing lists it as a possible neotheropod. ref name DinosaurNet cite web last first authorlink coauthors title Tsuchikurasaurus work publisher Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology year 2005 url http www.dinosaur.net.cn museum Tsuchikurasaurus.htm doi accessdate 2007 08 27 archiveurl http web.archive.org web 20071109003430 http www.dinosaur.net.cn museum Tsuchikurasaurus.htm archivedate 2007 11 09 ref References Reflist External links Portal Dinosaurs http web.archive.org web 20071109003430 http www.dinosaur.net.cn museum Tsuchikurasaurus.htm Tsuchikurasaurus from Dinosaur.net.cn in Chinese, includes artist s impression Category Dinosaurs of Asia Category Cretaceous dinosaurs Category Nomina nuda Category Theropods theropod stub zh ... more details
BLP sources date July 2010 Yuan Wang is a Paleontology Paleontologist and has been the director of the Paleozoological Museum of China ref cite press release publisher Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences date 17 November 2009 title Scientific counselor to the President of France visited IVPP url http english.ivpp.cas.cn ns icn 200911 t20091117 47361.html accessdate 29 July 2010 archiveurl http www.webcitation.org 5rabaoadn archivedate 29 July 2010 ref PMC since 2004. This natural history museum is affiliated to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP of the Chinese Academy of Sciences CAS . He is a Research Professor at IVPP and graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, with research work mainly on fossil amphibian s and lizard s. References Reflist Use dmy dates date August 2010 Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Yuan, Wang ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Paleontologist DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Yuan, Wang Category Chinese paleontologists Category Living people scientist stub ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Trinil is a paleoanthropology palaeoanthropological site on the banks of the Bengawan Solo River in Ngawi Regency , East Java Provinces of Indonesia Province , Indonesia . It was at this site in 1891 that the Netherlands Dutch anatomist Eug ne Dubois discovered the first early Hominidae hominid remains to be found outside of Europe the famous Java Man specimen. Coord missing Indonesia Category Archaeological sites in Indonesia Category Prehistoric Indonesia EJava geo stub es Trinil ko id Trinil jv Trinil ms Trinil sl Trinil ... more details
italictitle Mother Tongue is the yearly periodical of the Association for the Study of Language In Prehistory and was established in 1995. Its goal is to encourage international and interdisciplinary information sharing, discussion, and debate among Human evolutionary genetics geneticists , paleoanthropology paleoanthropologists , archaeology archaeologists , and historical linguistics historical linguists on questions relating to the emerging synthesis on Origin of language language origins and Proto language ancestral human spoken languages . This includes, but is not limited to, discussion of linguistic Superfamily linguistics macrofamily Hypothesis hypotheses . External links http www.people.fas.harvard.edu witzel aslip.html Association for the Study of Language In Prehistory ASLIP website Category Linguistics journals Category Annual journals Category Publications established in 1995 Category English language journals de Mother Tongue Journal pl Mother Tongue ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2006 Image Verneau.jpg thumb right Ren Verneau in his laboratory in the Museo Canario in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Ren Verneau 25 April 1852 7 January 1938 was a French antropology antropologist who was important in the study of the paleoanthropology . Among his work is the reconstruction of the Grimaldi man from Liguria , and study of the Guanches . In 2005, the Mission la que fran aise college in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , the only francophone college in the island, adopted his name. Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Verneau, Rene ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1852 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1938 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Verneau, Rene Category 1852 births Category 1938 deaths Category French anthropologists Anthropologist stub France scientist stub es Ren Verneau fr Ren Verneau ... more details
Infobox paranormal creature Creature Name Nittaewo Image Name Image Caption Grouping Cryptid Sub Grouping Hominid AKA Country Sri Lanka Region South Asia Habitat Rainforest First Reported Last Sighted Status Unconfirmed The Nittaewo were a mythical human population or species in Sri Lanka n Vedda people Vedda folklore, described as short and hairy. ref cite book url http books.google.co.uk books?id W6zQHNavWlsC&pg PA361&lpg PA361&dq Nittaewo&sa X&ved 0CC8Q6AEwBjgK v onepage&q Nittaewo&f false title God apes and fossil men paleoanthropology of South Asia author Kenneth A. R. Kennedy page 361 publisher University of Michigan Press year 2000 ref References references Category Hominid cryptids SriLanka stub ... more details
automatic taxobox fossil range Early Cretaceous name Xinjiangovenator display parents 3 taxon Xinjiangovenator parvus parent authority Rauhut & Xu Xing paleontologist Xu , 2005 authority Rauhut & Xu, 2005 Xinjiangovenator meaning Xinjiang hunter is a genus of coelurosaur ian dinosaur of the Valanginian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous Period geology period . Its remains were found in the Lianmuqin Formation of Wuerho , Xinjiang, China , and were first described by Dong Zhiming . Holotype Based on Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP 4024 2, an articulated partial right leg, it was originally thought to be a new specimen of Phaedrolosaurus . ref name ZD73 cite journal last Dong first Zhiming authorlink Dong Zhiming year 1973 title Dinosaurs from Wuerho journal Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academic Sinica volume 11 pages 45 52 language Chinese ref However, Phaedrolosaurus is based only on teeth, so the hindlimb bones were given their own genus by Rauhut and Xu in 2005. It may be related to Bagaraatan . ref name RX05 cite journal last Rauhut first Oliver W.M. coauthors and Xu, Xing year 2005 title The small theropod dinosaurs Tugulusaurus and Phaedrolosaurus from the Early Cretaceous of Xinjiang, China journal Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology volume 25 issue 1 pages 107 118 doi 10.1671 0272 4634 2005 025 0107 TSTDTA 2.0.CO 2 issn 0272 4634 ref References Reflist Portal Dinosaurs Category Coelurosaurs Category Cretaceous dinosaurs Category Dinosaurs of Asia theropod stub cs Xinjiangovenator es Xinjiangovenator it Xinjiangovenator parvus nl Xinjiangovenator pl Xinjiangovenator zh ... more details
God Apes and Fossil Men is a book on Paleoanthropology in South Asia by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy . Ann Arbor, 2000 . The book is a detailed study of the history of South Asian Paleoanthropology and of the fossil record of prehistoric people in South Asia . The fifth chapter is about the prehistoric God Apes of the Siwalik hills. Other chapters describe the fossil hominids of the Pleistocene . The Mesolithic skeletal record is also described, and the last chapters treat the Harappan civilization and the Megalith builders. Chapters in the book 1 The land of Bharata. br 2 Establishing the archaeological record. br 3 Paleontology and evolution. br 4 The Aryan hordes. br 5 The God Apes of Siwalik hills. br 6 The earliest evidence of Hominid settlement in Pliestocene South Asia. br 7 Mileposts in Paleolithic journey. br 8 Fossil hominids in south Asian Pleistocene. br 9 Post Pleistocene landscapes and cultural chronology. br 10 Mesolithic hunter foragers. br 11 The skeletal records of mesolithic populations. br 12 Early farmers and pastoralists. br 13 The skeletal records of early farming and pastoral populations. br 14 The Harappan civilization. br 15 The Harappan heritage. br 16 The Megalith builders. br 17 Where did all the races go? br 18 Conspectus. br External links http muse.jhu.edu journals asian perspectives v040 40.2schepartz.pdf http www.news.cornell.edu Chronicle 01 5.17.01 Kennedy book.html Category 2000 books Category Biology books Category Human evolution books science book stub ... more details
Taxobox name Largirostrornis fossil range Early Cretaceous , fossil range 120 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Aves subclassis Enantiornithes superordo Euenantiornithes genus Largirostrornis genus authority Hou, 1997 subdivision ranks Species subdivision L. sexdentornis small Hou, 1997 Type species type small Largirostrornis is a Genus of enantiornithine bird. One species is known, Largirostornis sexdentoris . It lived during the Early Cretaceous and is known from fossil s found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning province, People s Republic of China . It is known from one fossil , slab and counterslab, found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning province, People s Republic of China . The Jiufotang Formation is dated to the Early Cretaceous period, Aptian age, 120.3 0.7 million years ago. ref name Heetal2004 He, H.Y., Wang, X.L., Zhou, Z.H., Wang, F., Boven, A., Shi, G.H., Zhu R.X. 2004 . Timing of the Jiufotang Formation Jehol Group in Liaoning, northeastern China, and its implications . Geophysical Research Letters 31 13 1709. ref The holotype fossil is in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China. It is given catalog number IVPP 10531. ref name Hou1997 Hou, Lianhai 1997 Mesozoic Birds of China Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China. Published by the Phoenix Valley Provincial Aviary of Taiwan. In Chinese, translated by Will Downs, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University, January, 2001. ref L. sexdentornis has a torso longer than all other known enantiornithine s. It is slightly larger than Cuspirostrisornis , with a skull about 32 millimeters long. The dentary and premaxilla each hold six pairs of teeth. There are tall neural spine s on the cervical vertebrae cervical and Dorsum biology dorsal vertebrae. ref name Hou1997 Etymology The Genus name comes from the Latin words for large and beak , and the species name means six teeth . References Reflist ... more details
Image Ciampate del diavolo.JPG thumb 300px The Ciampate del Diavolo . Ciampate del Diavolo Neapolitan language Neapolitan Devil s Footprints is the name of a locality near Roccamonfina northern Campania , Italy , in the neighbourhood of an extinct volcano with the same name. It takes its name from several human fossil fossil footprints . Local tradition attributed the prints to the Devil, since it was deemed the sole creature capable of walking on lava without harm. The footprints were in fact made in volcanic ash by a bipedal hominidae hominid living in the area some 350,000 years ago. The footprints were left by individuals barely five feet 1.50 m tall, who appear to have been running away from the volcano. ref David Perlman, http www.sfgate.com cgi bin article.cgi?file c a 2003 03 13 MN36786.DTL Stone Age human tracks found Three people were rushing down side of a volcano near Naples , San Francisco Chronicle, March 13, 2003. Retrieved 6 June 2007. ref See also Paleoanthropology References reflist coord missing Italy Category Geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy Category Campania Category Hominin fossils it Ciampate del Diavolo hu Ciampate del Diavolo ... more details
Infobox journal title Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology cover editor Robert R. Reisz discipline Paleontology , vertebrate s peer reviewed language English language English abbreviation J. Vert. Paleontol., JVP publisher Society of Vertebrate Paleontology country United States frequency Quarterly history 1980 present openaccess license impact 2.346 impact year 2009 website http www.vertpaleo.org publications index.cfm link1 link1 name link2 link2 name RSS atom JSTOR OCLC LCCN CODEN ISSN 0272 4634 eISSN 1937 2809 boxwidth The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology JVP was founded in 1980 at the University of Oklahoma by Dr. Jiri Zidek . It is a scientific journal that publishes original contributions on all aspects of the vertebrate paleontology , including vertebrate vertebrate origins , evolution , Morphology biology functional morphology , taxonomy , biostratigraphy , paleoecology , paleobiogeography , and paleoanthropology . See also Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Category Paleontology journals Vertebrate Paleontology Category University of Oklahoma Category Publications established in 1980 Category Quarterly journals Category English language journals es Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology pl Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology pt Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology ... more details
A. C. L. Carlleyle was a nineteenth century archaeologist. The Archaeological Survey of India was revived as a distinct department of the government and Sir Alexander Cunningham was appointed as Director General who assumed his charge in February 1871. Cunningham was given two assistants J.D. Beglar and Carlleyle who were later joined by H.B.W. Garrik. Carlleyle handled the Agra region for the Report of 1871 72 whereas Beglar was in charge of Delhi. In 1867 68, Carlleyle discovered paintings on the walls and ceilings of rock shelters in Sohagighat, district Mirzapur . He was also the first to claim a Stone Age antiquity for these. Carlleyle also made many other important contributions to archeology in India . ref Page 396, God apes and Fossil Men Paleoanthropology of South Asia, By Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, Published 2000, University of Michigan Press, ISBN 0472110136 ref ref Page 27, Buddhism in the History of Indian Ideas, By Narendra Nath Bhattacharyya, Published 1993, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, ISBN 8173040176 ref See also Ror community Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Carlleyle, A. C. L. ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Carlleyle, A. C. L. Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category English archaeologists Category Indian archaeologists ... more details
Taxobox name Cuspirostrisornis fossil range Early Cretaceous , fossil range 120 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordata classis Aves subclassis Enantiornithes superordo Euenantiornithes genus Cuspirostrisornis genus authority Hou, 1997 subdivision ranks Species subdivision C. houi small Hou, 1997 Type species type small Cuspirostrisornis is a Genus of enantiornithine bird. Only one species is known, Cuspirostrisornis houi . It is known from one fossil found in the Jiufotang Formation in Liaoning province, People s Republic of China . The Jiufotang Formation is dated to the Early Cretaceous period, Aptian age, 120.3 0.7 million years ago. ref name Heetal2004 He, H.Y., Wang, X.L., Zhou, Z.H., Wang, F., Boven, A., Shi, G.H., Zhu R.X. 2004 . Timing of the Jiufotang Formation Jehol Group in Liaoning, northeastern China, and its implications . Geophysical Research Letters 31 13 1709. ref C. houi is known from a nearly complete fossil. The Holotype fossil is in the collection of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China. The fossil is given catalog number IVPP V 10897. It was collected in 1993 by Dr. Hou Lianhai and Hou Jinfeng, the illustrator at IVPP. It was collected from light gray mudstones approximately 2 kilometers west of Boluochi Village, Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province. ref name Hou1997 Hou, Lianhai 1997 Mesozoic Birds of China Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China. Published by the Phoenix Valley Provincial Aviary of Taiwan. In Chinese, translated by Will Downs, Bilby Research Center, Northern Arizona University, January, 2001. ref The holotype fossil is that of a small perching form, with a skull about 27 millimeters long. There are five pairs of tiny teeth in the premaxilla, and another five pairs in the anterior dentary . Hou states that the beak resembles that of the extant Genus Motacilla , the Wagtail s. The Ulna is large and derived, with the s shape of modern flying birds. The sternu ... more details
Zhou Ming Zhen 9 Nov. 1918&ndash 4 Jan. 1996 , also known as Minchen M. Chow , and as Ming by his close friends was a pioneering Chinese paleomammalogist. He was an Academican of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , where he was a research professor for mammalian paleontology in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, and was awarded the Romer Simpson Medal . Zhou Ming Zhen was born in Shanghai , China , and graduated from Chongqing University in 1943. He received an MSc degree from the University of Miami in 1948 and a Ph.D. degree from Lehigh University in 1950. He became an associate professor at Shandong University and in 1952 joined the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing where he remained until 1996. He was the leader from the Chinese side for the Sino Soviet Expedition to northwestern China in 1959&ndash 1960 and in 1979, became an Honorary Member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . He became an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980 and in 1993, was awarded the Romer Simpson Medal for sustained and outstanding scholarly excellence and service to the discipline of vertebrate paleontology . He was an advocator of Cladistics in China since the early 1980s and a promotor of Abroad study or academic training for young Chinese paleontologists in the 1980s and 1990s. References refbegin 2009. Scientific Works of Zhou Mingzhen Minchen Chow prefaced by Academician and Professor Zhanxiang QIU, with 141 papers of MMC, 1071 pp. cite web url http www.china historical figures.com bilder biographie 6.html title Chai Meichen 1917 1993 date 5 April 2009 work Chinas historische Figuren 1966 1976 publisher Mag. Moqi Xu und Dipl. Kffr. MMag. Marion Romberg accessdate 2009 07 15 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot cite web url http www.lehigh.edu inchp alumni.html ZMZ title Lehigh University Chinese Alumni Heritage Famous Alumni publisher Lehigh University access ... more details
Italic title Taxobox name Wanosuchus fossil range ? Paleocene regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Reptile Sauropsida subclassis Diapsid a infraclassis Archosauromorpha unranked superordo Crurotarsi superordo Crocodylomorpha unranked familia Mesoeucrocodylia familia uncertain genus Wanosuchus genus authority Zhang, 1981 in paleontology 1981 subdivision ranks Species subdivision W. atresus small Zhang, 1981 type species type small Wanosuchus Wangjiang County crocodile is an extinct genus of sebecosuchia n mesoeucrocodylia n known from ? Paleocene age rocks of southern Anhui , People s Republic of China China . It is holotype based on Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP V 6262, a nearly complete mandible lower jaw , which is also the only known specimen. The bone lacks an external mandibular fenestra and has thirteen teeth, the longest of which are the fourth and eleventh. It was collected between 1970 and 1972 by Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP personnel the exact location and rock unit that produced the bone are uncertain. Wanosuchus was named in 1981 by Zhang Fakui of the IVPP. The type species is W. atresus , a reference to the absent fenestra. Zhang classified Wanosuchus under its own family within Sebecosuchia, Wanosuchidae. ref name ZF81 cite journal author Zhang Fakui year 1981 title A fossil crocodile from Anhui province journal Vertebrate Palasiatica volume 19 issue 3 pages 200 207 language Chinese with English summary url http www.ivpp.ac.cn cbw gjzdwxb xbwzxz 200904 W020090813375120423184.pdf ref It shares some characteristics with Doratodon , a crocodyliformes crocodyliform from the Late Cretaceous of Europe . ref name JCetal05 cite journal last Company first Julio coauthors Suberbiola, Xabier P. Ruiz Ome aca, Jos I. and Buscalioni, Angela D. year 2005 title A new species of Doratodon Crocodyliformes Ziphosuchia from the Late Cretaceous of Spain journal Journal of Vertebr ... more details
Image PaleozoologicalMuseumOfChina Front May23 08.jpg thumb right Front entrance to the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology building. Image Paleozoological Museum of China.jpg thumb right Close up of the entrance to the public Paleozoological Museum of China The Paleozoological Museum of China is located in Beijing . The same building also houses the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences . The museum containing exhibition halls with specimens aimed at the public, while the rest of the building is used for research purposes. ref http english.cas.ac.cn eng2003 dmk01a pdf 11 Institute 20of 20Vertebrate 20Paleontology 20and 20Paleoanthropology.pdf Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, last visited July 10, 2008 ref The main building consists of three floors, with the first floor devoted primarily to fishes and amphibians, with reptiles and birds represented on the second floor, and mammals including examples of megafauna like Stegodon on the third floor. ref http www.china.org.cn english travel 164852.htm Paleozoological Museum of China, last visited July 9, 2008 ref Many of the fossil specimens on display are of extinct animals examples of which have only been found within the boundaries of modern day China, such as Sinokannemeyeria . It also has several examples of the evolutionary precursors to birds, including specimens of Confuciusornis and Microraptor , found on field expeditions to Liaoning . ref http english.cas.ac.cn Eng2003 page SRA D 1.htm A Comprehensive Study on the Vertebrates of the Jehol Biota in Western Liaoning Province, last visited July 10, 2008 ref An adjoining gallery to the main floor looks at the origins of man, including information on Peking Man an example of Homo erectus , discovered in nearby Zhoukoudian Choukoutien during excavations in 1923 27. It also contains a number of stone tools used by paleolithic peoples, and examples of ... more details
publisher Technorati title John Hawks weblog ref The blog deals primarily with Paleoanthropology. The blog provides analysis of current research in Paleoanthropology, discussing the significance and implications ... more details
of the 2nd edition of Paleoanthropology 1999, McGraw Hill , ISBN 0 07 071676 5 , Wolpoff s detailed ... Reports in Archaeology, Contribution 1, Ann Arbor. 1980 Paleoanthropology. Knopf, New York 379 pp. ... Natural History Museum, Zagreb. 1994 Paleoanthropology. Preliminary publication of the 2nd edition. College ... Anthropological Association 1999 Paleoanthropology. 2nd edition. McGraw Hill, New York. ISBN 0 07 071676 ..., M. Pickford, and J. Ahern An Ape or The Ape Is The Touma Cranium TM 266 a Hominid? PaleoAnthropology ... more details
italictitle speciesbox name Liaoningosaurus fossil range Early Cretaceous , fossil range 122 display parents 3 genus Liaoningosaurus parent authority Xu Xing paleontologist Xu , Wang & You, 2001 in paleontology 2001 species paradoxus authority Xu, Wang & You, 2001 Liaoningosaurus is a very unusual ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous . The holotype Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP V12560 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology , Beijing , an essentially complete juvenile skeleton compressed on a slab, was collected from the Yixian Formation Aptian stage of Liaoxi, Yixian County, Liaoning Province, People s Republic of China . The type species Liaoningosaurus paradoxus was named by Xu Xing paleontologist Xu Xing , Wang Xiaolin and You Hailu in 2001. The generic name refers to Liaoning. The specific name zoology specific name refers to the confusing mix of nodosaurid and ankylosaurid features shown by the specimen. The articulated skeleton measures approximately 34 cm in length, giving it the distinction of being the smallest known ankylosaur specimen. The specimen is unique among all known ankylosaur fossils in the retention of the external mandibular fenestra . Antorbital fenestra e may also be present. Both are likely juvenile traits, just as the relatively large teeth, the retention of teeth in the praemaxilla, long feet, long lower legs and the possession of long sharp claws on the hand and feet. A real feature unique to the taxon , or autapomorphy might be the trapezoid form of the breast bone Another new feature is the presence of ventral armor plating, two very large paired osteoderms covering the entire abdomen and having a surface structure sculpted with small hexagonal and rhombic elevations. Such plates had never been found with other ankylosaurian s, of which the belly armor is poorly known, however. Smaller triangular osteoderms were found on the shoulder, the scapula showing the onset of a shoulder ... more details
italictitle Taxobox name Microhadrosaurus fossil range Late Cretaceous regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Reptile Sauropsida superordo Dinosaur ia ordo Ornithischia subordo Ornithopoda infraordo Iguanodont ia superfamilia Hadrosauroidea familia Hadrosauridae genus Microhadrosaurus binomial Microhadrosaurus br nanshiungensis binomial authority Dong Zhiming Dong , 1979 Microhadrosaurus meaning small sturdy lizard in Ancient Greek Greek is a genus of hadrosauridae duckbill dinosaur from the Campanian or Maastrichtian age Upper Cretaceous Yuanpu Formation also known as the Nanxiong Formation of Guangdong , People s Republic of China China . Although its name identifies it as a small duckbill, it is based on juvenile organism juvenile remains, and the size of the adult hadrosaur is unknown. Description Dong Zhiming named this genus for Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology IVPP V4732 , a partial dentary lower jaw from a juvenile hadrosaur. This partial bone, with 18 columns of stacked tooth teeth in a typical hadrosaur tooth battery, measures 37 centimeters long 15 inches . ref name DZ79 cite book author Dong Zhiming authorlink Dong Zhiming editor Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology and Nanjing Institute of Paleontology eds. title Mesozoic and Cenozoic Red Beds of South China year 1979 publisher Science Press location Nanxiong, China language Chinese pages 342 350 chapter The Cretaceous dinosaur fossils in southern China ref Dong later estimated the length of the individual at 2.6 meters 8.5 feet . ref name DZ87 cite book author Dong Zhiming authorlink Dong Zhiming title Dinosaurs from China year 1987 publisher China Ocean Press location Beijing isbn 0 565 01073 5 pages 1 114 ref History Dong regarded this genus as much like Edmontosaurus , albeit in tiny form. ref name DZ79 However, Michael K. Brett Surman, a hadrosaur specialist, regarded the material as showing no characteristics that would allow it ... more details
Dr. Yohannes Haile Selassie b. Adigrat , Ethiopia , February 23, 1961 is an Ethiopian paleoanthropology paleoanthropologist . An authority on pre Homo sapiens hominid s, he particularly focuses his attention on the East African Rift and Middle Awash Valleys of East Africa . He began his education at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa , graduating in the summer of 1982 with a B.A. degree in history. His first job was at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa. His graduate education began at The University of California, Berkeley , where he was mentored by Tim White anthropologist Tim White and earned an M.A. in Anthropology in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Integrative Biology in 2001. In 2002, he became the Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology Department at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio , where he works currently. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University . Yohannes is well known in the field of paleoanthropology for having a gift for fossil spotting, with his first fossil hunting expedition White s Middle Awash Project taking place in 1990. He has been instrumental in the discoveries of the type specimen principal reference fossil for Australopithecus garhi and Ardipithecus Ardipithecus kadabba both discovered in 1997 , and has also found fossil specimens of Ardipithecus ramidus , Australopithecus afarensis , and species of Homo including Homo erectus , and Homo sapiens . From 2004 through 2007, he has led digs in the Mille woreda Mille woreda of the Afar Region of Ethiopia the Woranso Mille Project . In June, 2010, Haile Selassie published a paper describing Kadanuumuu , one of the specimens his group found in Afar. ref name nature cite news publisher Nature title Africa s next top hominid Ancient human relative could walk upright. author Rex Dalton date 2010 06 20 ref The research conducted by Yohannes has been primarily funded by http www.leakeyfoundation.org the Leakey ... more details
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