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A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance

Overview of attention for article published in The Science of Nature, August 2008
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Title
A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., from the Middle Permian of China and its paleogeographic significance
Published in
The Science of Nature, August 2008
DOI 10.1007/s00114-008-0438-0
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Authors

Johannes Müller, Jin-Ling Li, Robert R. Reisz

Abstract

A new bolosaurid parareptile, Belebey chengi sp. nov., is described from Dashankou, Gansu Province, China, a Middle Permian locality which is known mostly for its therapsid fauna. The material consists of well-preserved mandibular and anterior skull remains and currently represents the largest and latest surviving member of Bolosauridae. Phylogenetic analysis of bolosaurid interrelationships, the first analysis of any clade of Early Permian parareptiles, indicates that the new taxon groups consistently with the other (Russian) members of the genus Belebey, and forms the sister clade to the genus Bolosaurus from North America. The Early Permian Eudibamus cursoris from Germany falls into the basal most position within Bolosauridae. Our analysis also shows that the split between the main bolosaurid lineages must have occurred near or before the Permo-Carboniferous boundary and that the paleo-equatorial region of Laurasia probably served as the center of origination for these parareptiles. A similar pattern can be found in other clades of Paleozoic amniotes, suggesting that this may be the general trend in early amniote evolution.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 28 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 7 24%
Student > Bachelor 4 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Student > Postgraduate 3 10%
Student > Master 3 10%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 3 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 14 48%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 31%
Environmental Science 2 7%
Unknown 4 14%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 November 2022.
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#7,591,533
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Outputs from The Science of Nature
#786
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#30,270
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Outputs of similar age from The Science of Nature
#8
of 17 outputs
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