Fifteen years have past since the first edition of The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kins was published. Like its first edition, this second edition remains to serve as an introductory manual of the Chinese lower vertebrate fossils and primitive birds for leontologists and non-professionals alike.
This thoroughly revised and updated edition has incorporated 172 new genera and 219 new species discovered in the past 15 years in China. Most of them came from the materials collected during the C

The first edition of The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kins, which includes the fossil amphibians, reptiles, synapsids, and birds of China, was published in English in 1992. It is a professional book written to introduce the lower vertebrate fossils of China to paleontologists around the world. The book received world-wide attention and was sold out shortly after its appearance because it was well written and well-illustrated with plentiful text figures.
As a result of the many remarkable achievements in the vertebrate paleontology of China during the last 15 years, it is necessary to update The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and Their Kins. We hope that the new edition of the book will become a window through which paleontologists will have a broad view of recent research on the fossil lower vertebrates and birds of China.
The whole book was compiled by the specialists whose names are listed in each section. The specialists who worked on the last edition of the book are named as the junior author in each section but they are not responsible for any mistakes the present edition may have.
Illustrations indicated particularly in their captions are from published sources, others either from the last editions or innovation for this edition.
We would like to thank the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, and National Natural Science Foundation of China, for the moral and financial support that made achievement by the authors in the past decades possible.
The editors and authors express their appreciation to Professor Susan E. EVANS for reading and improving the preface, introduction, and manuscripts of amphibians and squamates, Dr. MIAO Desui for reading and improving the preface, and introduction. We are grateful to YANG Mingwan, XU Yong, DING Xiaoqing and HE Li for their assistance with some illustrations.
The proceeding of this book is supported by The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China （2006FY120400, 2006CB806400 and 2005DKA21405）.

Preface
Introduction
Introduction (The first edition, 1992)
Institutional abbreviations
Tetrapoda
Amphibia
Order Temnospondyli
Subclass Lissamphibia
Superorder Caudata
Order Urodela
Superorder Salientia
Order Anura
Superorder Reptiliomorpha
Order Anthracosauria
Amniota
Sauropsida
Subclass Anapsida
Suborder Procolophonia
Suborder Pareiasauroidea
Order Testudines
Infraorder Rhaptochelydia
Gigaorder Casichelydia
Suborder Cryptodira
Hyperorder Daiocryptodira
Order Captorhinomorpha
Subclass Diapsida
Order Choristodera
Infraclass Lepidosauromorpha
Superorder Lepidosauria
Order Rhynchocephalia
Order Squamata
Infraorder Iguania
Scleroglossa
Infraorder Scincomorpha
Infraorder Anguimorpha
Suborder Serpentes
Marine diapsids
Order Hupehsuchia
Superorder Ichthyopterygia
Order Grippidia
Order Ichthyosauria
Suborder Mixosauda
Suborder Merriamosauriformes
Infraorder Shastasauria
Infraorder Euichthyosauria
Superorder Thalattosauria
Superorder Sauropterygia
Order Placodontia
Suborder Cyamodontoidea
Order Eosauropterygia
Suborder Pachypleurosauria
Suborder Eusauropterygia
Infraorder Nothosauroidea
Infraorder Pistosauroidea
Order Plesiosauria
I nfraclass Archosauromorpha
Order Protorosauria
Archosauriformes
Superorder Archosauria
Crurotarsi
Order Crocodylomorpha
Suborder Sphenosuchia
Suborder Crocodyliformes
Infraorder Protosuchia
Infraorder Mesoeucrocodylia
Infraorder Neosuchia
Infraorder Eusuchia
Order Pterosauria
Suborder Rhamphorhynchoidea
Suborder Pterodactyloidea
Order Ornithischia
Suborder Ornithopoda
Infraorder Iguanodontia
Suborder Ceratopsia
Suborder Pachycephalosauria
Suborder Stegosauria
Suborder Ankylosauria
Order Saurischia
Suborder Sauropodomorpha
Infraorder Prosauropoda
Infraorder Sauropoda
Suborder Theropoda
Ceratosauria
Tetanurae
Avetheropoda
Carnosauria
Coelurosauria
Maniraptora
Oviraptorosauria
Eumaniraptora
Aves
Order Jeholornithiformes
Pygostylia
Order Sapeornithiformes
Order Confuciusornithiformes
Ornithothoraces
Enantiornithes
Order Protopterygiformes
Order Eoenantiomithiformes
Order Liaoxiornithiformes
Order Longirostravisiformes
Order Longipterygiformes
Order Cathayornithiformes
Order Sinomithiformes
Order Boluochiformes
Order Jibeiniaithiformes
Ornithurae
Order Liaoningornithiformes
Order Yixianornithiformes
Order Yanornithiformes
Order Chaoyangornithiformes
Order Gansuiformes
Order Struthioniformes
Order Ardeiformes
Order Anseriformes
Order Falconiformes
Order Strigiformes
Order Galliformes
Order Gruiformes
Order Diatrymiformes
Order Charadriiformes
Order Passeriformes
List of Pleistocene birds at Zhoukoudian, Beijing
Subclass Synapsida
Order Therapsida
Suborder Eotitanosuchia
Suborder Dinocephalia
Suborder Dicynodontia
Suborder Therocephalia
Suborder Cynodontia
Literature cited
Systematic index
Index
A comparative list the locality in Chinese phonetic alphabet (CPA)and ‘conventional’English(CE)
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