Zhonghe Zhou talks with
ScienceWatch.com and answers a few questions
about this month's Fast Moving Front in the field of
Multidisciplinary. The author has also sent along
images of their work.
Article: An exceptionally preserved Lower
Cretaceous ecosystem
Authors: Zhou,
ZH;Barrett, PM;Hilton, J
Journal: NATURE, 421 (6925): 807-814, FEB 20 2003
Figure 1: The Sihetun locality, one of the
most famous Lower Cretaceous vertebrate
fossil-bearing sites in Liaoning,
northeastern China.
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Figure 2:
Figure 2: Photo of an fossil bird embryo,
one of the many exceptionally preserved
fossils discovered from the lacustrine
Lower Cretaceous deposits in northeastern
China (after Zhou and Zhang,
Science 306: 653, 2004) (Scale
bar: 5mm).
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Figure 3:
Figure 3: An artist’s reconstruction
of the terrestrial Early Cretaceous Jehol
ecosystem.
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