Rise of the dragon
Subtitle: readings from Nature on the Chinese fossil record = [Teng fei zhi long]
By: edited by Henry Gee ; with a foreword by Zhe-Xi Luo.
Contributors: Gee, Henry, 1962-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Animals, Fossil -- China.
Other titles: Nature (London, England)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Foreword Zhe-Xi Luo ix Introduction 1; title: 1 Three-Dimensional Preservation of Algae and Animal Embryos; title: in a Neoproterozoic Phosphorite 9; title: Shu-Hai Xiao, Yun Zhang, and Andrew H. Knoll; title: NATURE 391, 553-558 (1998); title: 2 Animal Embryos in Deep Time 21; title: Stefan Bengtson; title: NATURE 391, 529-530 (1998); title: 3 A Pipiscid-like Fossil from the Lower Cambrian of South China 25; title: De-Gan Shu, S. Conway Morris, Xing-Liang Zhang, Liang Chen, Y. Li,; title: and J. Han; title: NATURE 400, 746-749 (1999); title: 4 An Early Cambrian Cranlate-like Chordate 32; title: Jun-Yuan Chen, Di-Ying Huang, and Chia-Wei Li; title: NATURE 402, 518-522 (1999); title: 5 Lower Cambrian Vertebrates from South China 42; title: De-Gan Shu, Hui-Lin Luo, S. Conway Morris, Xing-Liang Zhang, S.-X. Hu,; title: Liang Chen, Han, Min Zhu, Y. Li, and L.-Z. Chen; title: NATURE 402, 42-46 (1999); title: 6 Catching the First Fish 53; title: Philippe Janvier; title: NATURE 402, 21-22 (1999); title: 7 A Primitive Fossil Fish Sheds Light on the Origin; title: of Bony Fishes 56; title: Min Zhu, Xiao-Bo Yu, and Philippe Janvier; title: NATURE 397, 607-610 (1999); title: 8 Something Fishy in the Family Tree 64; title: Per Erik Ahlberg; title: NATURE 397, 564-565 (1999); title: 9 An Exceptionally Well-Preserved Theropod Dinosaur from; title: the Yixian Formation of China 67; title: Pei-Ji Chen, Zhi-Ming Dong, and Shuo-Nan Zhen; title: NATURE 391, 147-152 (1998); title: 10 Feathers, Filaments and Theropod Dinosaurs 83; title: David M. Unwin; title: NATURE 391, 119-120 (1998); title: 11 A Therizinosauroid Dinosaur with Integumentary Structures; title: from China 87; title: Xing Xu, Zhi-Lu Tang, and Xiao-Lin Wang; title: NATURE 399, 350-354 (1999); title: 12 A Dromaeosaurid Dinosaur with a Filamentous Integument; title: from the Yixian Formation of China 96; title: Xing Xu, Xiao-Lin Wang, and Xiao-Chun Wu; title: NATURE 401, 262-266 (1999); title: 13 Two Feathered Dinosaurs from Northeastern China 105; title: Qiang Ji, Philip J. Currie, Mark A. Norell, and Shu-An Ji; title: NATURE 393, 753-761 (1998); title: 14 When Is a Bird Not a Bird? 119; title: Kevin Padian; title: NATURE 393, 729-730 (1998); title: 15 A Diapsid Skull in a New Species of the Primitive; title: Bird Confuciusonmis 123; title: Lian-Hai Hou, Larry D. Martin, Zhong-He Zhou, Alan Feduccia,; title: and Fu-Cheng Zhang; title: NATURE 399, 679-682 (1999); title: 16 A Chinese Triconodont Mammal and Mosaic Evolution; title: of the Mammalian Skeleton 130; title: Qiang i, Zhe-Xi Luo, and Shu-An ji; title: NATURE 398, 326-330 (1999); title: 17 At the Roots of the Mammalian Family Tree 139; title: Timothy Rowe; title: NATURE 398, 283-284 (1999); title: 18 A New Symmetrodont Mammal from China and Its Implications; title: for Mammalian Evolution 143; title: Yao-Ming Hu, Yuan-Qing Wang, Zhe-Xi Luo, and Chuan-Kui Li; title: NATURE 390, 137-142 (1997); title: 19 Biostratigraphy of New Pterosaurs from China 157; title: Shu-An Ji, Qiang Ji, and Kevin Padian; title: NATURE 398, 573 (1999); title: 20 Palaeobiology: A Refugium for Relicts 160; title: Zhe-Xi Luo; title: NATURE 400, 23-25 (1999); title: 21 A Refugium for Relicts? 164; title: Makoto Manabe, Paul M. Barrett, and Shinji Isaji; title: NATURE 404, 953 (2000); title: 22 Cretaceous Age for the Feathered Dinosaurs; title: of Liaoning, China 167; title: Carl C. Swisher III, Yuan-Qing Wang, Xiao-Lin Wang, Xing Xu,; title: and Yuan Wang; title: NATURE 400, 58-61 (1999); title: Supplementary Information 175 Contributors 251; title: Index 259.