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...
Although the Suidae animals were one of the most prosperous mammals, their taxa and phylogeny were poorly studied. To bridge this research gap, the complete mitochondrial DNA cyt b sequences (1140 bp)of one red rive...