KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Locomotor adaptations of 7.4 Ma Hipparionine fossils from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and their palaeoecological significance | |
Li, Yangfan1,2,3; Deng, Tao1,2,4,5,6; Hu, Hong1,2; Sun, Boyang4,5,6; Zhang, Yunxiang1,2 | |
2019-09-28 | |
发表期刊 | HISTORICAL BIOLOGY |
ISSN | 0891-2963 |
期号 | 0页码:14 |
摘要 | New fossil remains of limb bones referred to Hipparion (Hippotherium) chiai from 7.4 Ma in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, Fugu, Shaanxi, China are herein described and analysed. Although some of the primitive features remain on the phalanges, e.g.: less well-developed V-scars on the phalanges III; the suspending extent of the side toes is limited. But the functional morphology of these limb bones also suggests that: 1) the metapodials are gracile; 2) the distal keel of the metapodial is strong; 3) the absolute digital length of side toes are reduced dramatically; (4) it has basal 'spring foot'. These characters are characteristic of equines with superior locomotor abilities (faster and more agile), indicating that H. chiai was well adapted to an open environment. Together with the evidence of palaeozoogeography and isotopic palaeodietary proxies, we suggest a temperate C-3 steppe environment for the middle reaches of the Yellow River at 7.4 Ma, instead of arid or semiarid C-4 savannas as previously believed. We also propose a novel hypothesis of evolutionary process of 'spring foot' on Eurasian hipparionine horses. |
关键词 | Northern Shaanxi Chinese Loess Plateau Late Miocene vertebrate palaeontology palaeoecology |
DOI | 10.1080/08912963.2019.1669592 |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | National Natural Science Foundation of China[41430102] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41430102] ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology), CAS[193114] ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology), CAS[193114] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41272020] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41272020] ; Strategic Priority Cultivating Research Programme, CAS[XDPB05] ; Strategic Priority Cultivating Research Programme, CAS[XDPB05] ; Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS[QYZDYSSW-DQC022] ; Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS[QYZDYSSW-DQC022] ; All China Commission of Stratigraphy[2015FY310100] ; All China Commission of Stratigraphy[2015FY310100] |
WOS研究方向 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Biology ; Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000487881000001 |
出版者 | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/10254 |
专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
通讯作者 | Deng, Tao |
作者单位 | 1.Northwest Univ, State Key Lab Continental Dynam, Inst Cenozo Geol & Environm, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 2.Northwest Univ, Dept Geol, Xian, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Li, Yangfan,Deng, Tao,Hu, Hong,et al. Locomotor adaptations of 7.4 Ma Hipparionine fossils from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and their palaeoecological significance[J]. HISTORICAL BIOLOGY,2019(0):14. |
APA | Li, Yangfan,Deng, Tao,Hu, Hong,Sun, Boyang,&Zhang, Yunxiang.(2019).Locomotor adaptations of 7.4 Ma Hipparionine fossils from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and their palaeoecological significance.HISTORICAL BIOLOGY(0),14. |
MLA | Li, Yangfan,et al."Locomotor adaptations of 7.4 Ma Hipparionine fossils from the middle reaches of the Yellow River and their palaeoecological significance".HISTORICAL BIOLOGY .0(2019):14. |
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