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Science 28 June 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5577, p. 2311
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5577.2311a
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PALEONTOLOGY:
China Regains Fossils Seized in California

Ding Yimin and Erik Stokstad

BEIJING--Fourteen tons of Chinese fossils are back in their native country after a failed attempt to smuggle them into the United States. The shipment, which includes a 225-million-year-old ichthyosaur and a large number of exquisite crinoids--a kind of echinoderm called a sea lily--dating from the same period, arrived here earlier this month after being seized a year ago in San Diego, California.

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