This study was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41704071,41290253);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research(STEP)program(2019QZKK0707);Chinese Academy of Sciences“Light of West China”Program(XAB2018B04);Australian Research Council grant DP190100874;We thank David Heslop for checking our reversal test result.
The Quantougou(QTG) Fauna in central Lanzhou Basin is an important late Mid-Miocene fauna on the northeastern Tibetan Plateau margin,but its numerical age remains a matter of debate.Here,we present a new magnetostrati...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41290253)
Here,we describe a new primitive Erinaceidae species,Oligoechinus lanzhouensis n.gen.n.sp.,based on a specimen from late Oligocene strata of the Lanzhou Basin,Gansu Province.Its characteristics are as follows:the M1 w...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41272115,41290253)
1 Introduction Some Cyprinidae fossils have been reported about 420km east of the fossil site in the same period of Wulan Husentu1 layer,and have been used as an important fossil evidence for a deep understanding of the
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41290253)
The Asian monsoon-arid environment system began to develop during the Oligocene, but the exact position of the arid zone boundary is uncertain in the Oligocene. Fossil mammal assemblages can be used to assess the envi...