A controversial taxon,Hipparion plocodus,is reviewed in the present study.Hi.plocodus has been confirmed to be a valid species with definite diagnostic characteristics,represented by cranial specimens from Baode,Shanx...
A fossil-bearing locality near Padhri village,Dhok Pathan,55 km away from the tehsil Dina,Jhelum District,in the Potwar Plateau,Middle Siwaliks,Punjab,northern Pakistan,is significantly rich in mammalian fossils.This ...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006FY120300 and 2006CB806400);the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-120, Q09);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40730210), and the All-China Stratigraphic Commission
The Lower Pliocene of the Linxia Basin in Gansu Province is one of only a few representative sections for the Early Pliocene sedimentary records in northern China, and even in East Asia. Recently,abundant mammalian fo...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 49972004).
The faunal ecological type and sequence in the Tertiary red clay indicate that Hipparion fauna during the period 7.4-6.1 Ma in the middle reaches of the Yellow River is composed mainly of dorcadoides and mixed types. ...
THE climatic deterioration is an important event in the geological history and generally recog-nized by composition of strata and variation in some elements. However, the study on the cli-matic deterioration events in...
A suite of red strata called ’Hipparion red clay’ is widely distributed in North China. There has been a variety of opinions on its genesis, among which the leading. ones are aeolian theory and residual theory. A pr...
Over two hundred species of the Hipparion fauna belonging to the Baode Stage havebeen found in more than a hundred localities in China. All of these fossils had beenthought to come from the same horizon by most scient...