supported by Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB03020104);National Basic Research Program of China(GrantNo.2012CB821900);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41372001,41002010,40730210);the Important Research Plan of IVPP
We report a fossil specimen referable to Sinomastodontinae gen. et sp. indet, from the Neogene strata at Yanghecun locality, Xihe County, Gansu Province, China. The specimen is characterized by a brevirostrine mandibl...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 41202002, 40730210);Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB03020104);Ministry of Science and Technology of China (Grant No. 2012CB821906);Key Deployment Project of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The skull and mandible of a Late Miocene fossil pig,Chleuastochoerus,are compared morphologically with those of extant pigs and peccaries,and subjected to a functional analysis.The presence of a rostral bone in the sk...
supported by Strategic Priority Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB03020104);National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2012CB821900);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41002010 and 40730210)
A new species of Tsaidamotherium(Bovidae,Artiodactyla),T.brevirostrum,described here represents only the second discovery of the genus.Tsaidamotherium is a mid-sized late Miocene bovid with an odd-looking plate-like h...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2012CB821906);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40730210);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KL210207)
Yanjinggou in Wanzhou District of Chongqing is one of the earliest reported and most famous Quaternary mammalian fossil areas in China.The fauna from this area used to be taken as a benchmark for the biochronological ...