By Spencer Lucas
There appears to be like a fly-over tone and caliber to this publication. It lacks move and harmony. The picture caliber is certainly bad. Lucas additionally mis-cites Henry Fairfield Osborn's theorizing -- the quotation might be to Osborn's article in technology (April thirteen, 1900), quite at p. 567, no longer his later 1910 booklet book. As to recounting the principal Asiatic Expeditions, the remedy is asymmetric and just a little speculative. additionally, a few spellings are inconsistent: eg., "Granter" (caption determine 2-10) vs. "Granger" (text, p. 24), and nor is present in the Index; "William Morris" (p. 24) really used to be "Frederick B. Morris," and, back, nor is present in the Index; the excursion series on p. 24 is muddled (incorrect use of "First," "Second," etc.) and likewise ignores these made in China starting in 1921; and and so forth.
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1986). The oldest nonmarine vertebrate-producing strata in China belong to the Maoshan Formation of Anhui, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu. The Maoshan contains agnathan and “acanthodian” fossils and is mostly sandstone that consists of purple, thick-bedded and crossbedded strata above whitish-gray sandstone beds at its base. About 100 m thick, the Maoshan Formation gradationally overlies the Fentou Formation and is most likely of late Wenlock age. The lower member of the Xikeng Formation has produced the most diverse late Wenlock vertebrate assemblage from China.
1 mm. 1. , J. Pan 1992; Long 1995). They are further discussed in the next chapter. 2. Thelodonts and chondrichthyans first appear in China well after their first appearance elsewhere. Only in the early 1980s were Chinese Silurian thelodonts and chondrichthyans first reported, based on microvertebrate remains. The prospect for older Silurian records of thelodonts and chondrichthyans remains high. 3. Antiarchs and osteichthyans appear at the same time in China as their oldest records elsewhere. book Page 44 Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:26 AM 44 CAMBRIAN-SILURIAN Table 3-1 Comparison of oldest vertebrate records from the Chinese Cambrian- Silurian and the oldest records of these taxa outside of China First Record China Elsewhere Agnatha Early Cambrian Late Cambrian Galeaspida Early Silurian Early Silurian Acanthodii Late Silurian Late Silurian Thelodonti “Middle” Silurian Late Ordovician Antiarchi “Middle” Silurian Middle Silurian Osteichthyes Late Silurian Late Silurian Chondrichthyes Early Silurian Early Silurian Taxon: 4.
D. on Chinese fossil giraffes (Bohlin 1926). book Page 19 Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:26 AM HISTORY OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGICAL STUDIES Figure 2-8 Birger Bohlin (1898–1992) came to Zhoukoudian in 1927 to supervise the excavations (photograph courtesy of the late Birger Bohlin). accepted Andersson’s choice. In 1927, Bohlin arrived in China and reopened the excavation at Zhoukoudian. For two years, 1927–1928, Bohlin supervised a much more extensive excavation at Zhoukoudian than Zdansky had been able to undertake.