Sentence examples for oldest representative from inspiring English sources

It has not helped that Japan, despite being East Asia's oldest representative political system, never seized democracy through a popular uprising, as in neighboring South Korea.

These characters place the species Palaeoelphidium multisciussuratum gen. nov. within the family Elphidiellidae at the base of the Elphidiids (sensu lato) architecture as the oldest representative of the group.

The study shows that Razana is by far the oldest representative of the Notosuchians, pre-dating other members of this group by 42 million years.

The island's oldest representative in the 282-strong team is David Chapman, 77, who will be competing in the shooting event.

Our result is consistent with the age of the oldest representative fossil, the late Miocene phocoenid Salumiphocaena stocktoni [ 80].

These putative phylotypes were given a temporary name derived from the clone identifier of the oldest representative sequence of the clade present in the database.

Fossils from Cambrian rocks include the oldest representatives of most animal phyla having mineralized shells or skeletons.

Nevertheless, these studies were mainly based on Jurassic and Cretaceous specimens, whereas the brain and associated soft-tissues of the oldest representatives of the group have never been analysed in detail.

Already, they include primitive members of three of the major groups of dinosaurs that flourished near the end of the Cretaceous the ceratopsians, duck-bills, and tyrannosaurs at least two of which are the oldest representatives of their groups.

The oldest representatives of the Remingtonocetidae are found at the same fossil localities as Ambulocetus, but the greatest diversity of remingtonocetids is known from younger rocks, between 48 and 41 million years ago in India and Pakistan (Gingerich et al. 1997).

These Silurian specimens hint that the organisms may have been fungal, placing them among the oldest representatives of this kingdom.