▲     The late Ediacaran potential index fossil Sinotubulites from South China (Cai et al., 2015, Precambrian Research)

▲     Biostratinomic Analysis of Lycoptera Beds from the Jehol Biota, China (Pan et al., 2015, Palaeontology)

▲     Shougangia bella, a new fern-like plant from the Late Devonian of China (Wang et al., 2015. Annals of Botany)

▲Representative taxa of the Afon Gam Biota, from the Lower Ordovician of Wales (Botting et al., 2015, Scientific Reports)

▲     Various limestone breccias and conglomerates in the Furongian Chaomidian Formation of the North China Platform (Chen, 2015, Science China Earth Sciences)

▲Model for ocean-circulation control of δ¹⁵N variation during greenhouse climate scenario (a) and icehouse climate scenario (b) in the Tournaisian (Yao et al., 2015, Chemical Geology)

▲     Wathondara kotejai, amber reveals the earliest example of brood care in insects (Wang et al., 2015, eLife) 

▲     Euanthus panii, the earliest typical flower found in western Liaoning, China (Liu and Wang, 2015, Historical Biology)

▲Rhyniophytoid found from the Lower Devonian of Guangxi, South China (Xu et al., 2015, Historical Biology) 

▲Wiwaxia from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota (Zhao et al., 2015, Geological Magazine)

▲Early Tournaisian global palaeogeographic reconstruction (Qie et al., 2015, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology)

▲       Palaeogeographic reconstruction showing distribution of Gigantoproductus and possible migration via circum-Palaeotethys circulation during the Late Mississippian (Qiao and Shen, 2015, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology)