KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
| Tapirus yunnanensis from Shuitangba, a terminal Miocene hominoid site in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province of China | |
Ji Xueping1; Jablonski Nina G2; Tong Haowen3 ; Su Denise F4; Ebbestad Jan Ove R5; Liu Chengwu6; Yu Tengsong7
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| 2015 | |
| 发表期刊 | 古脊椎动物学报
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| ISSN | 1000-3118 |
| 卷号 | 53期号:3页码:177 |
| 摘要 | The fossil tapirid records of Late Miocene and Early Pliocene were quite poor in China as before known. The recent excavations of the terminal Miocene hominoid site (between 6 and 6.5 Ma) at Shuitangba site, Zhaotong in Yunnan Province resulted in the discovery of rich tapir fossils, which include left maxilla with P2-M2 and mandibles with complete lower dentitions. The new fossil materials can be referred to Tapirus yunnanensis, which represents a quite small species of the genus Tapirus. But T. yunnanensis is slightly larger than another Late Miocene species T. hezhengensis from Gansu, northwest China, both of which are remarkably smaller than the Plio-Pleistocene Tapirus species in China. The new fossils provided more information to define the species T. yunnanensis more precisely. Yunnan can be regarded as one of the centers of tapir evolution during the Mid-Late Miocene period, as quite a number of Mid-Late Miocene tapir fossils have been recovered in several localities of Yunnan, which include Xiaolongtan, Yuanmou, Lufeng, Zhaotong and others. Based on the measurements of tooth size, the late Cenozoic tapirs were generally getting larger gradually through time in China, which means the tooth sizes coincide well with their geological ages, the later the larger, and all the Mid-Late Miocene tapirs are exclusively small-sized; thus, the tooth size of fossil tapirs in China is likely to have some significance in age estimation. By contrary, both the dwarf and the normal-sized or larger-sized tapirs were discovered from Mid-Late Miocene strata in Europe and North America. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/11630 |
| 专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology & Research Center for Southeast Asian Archeology 2.宾夕法尼亚州立大学 3.中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 4.Department of Paleobotany and Paleoecology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History Cleveland 5.Museum of Evolution,Uppsala University Norbyvagen 16 6.Qujing Institute of Cultural Relics 7.Zhaotong Institute of Cultural Relics |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ji Xueping,Jablonski Nina G,Tong Haowen,et al. Tapirus yunnanensis from Shuitangba, a terminal Miocene hominoid site in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province of China[J]. 古脊椎动物学报,2015,53(3):177. |
| APA | Ji Xueping.,Jablonski Nina G.,Tong Haowen.,Su Denise F.,Ebbestad Jan Ove R.,...&Yu Tengsong.(2015).Tapirus yunnanensis from Shuitangba, a terminal Miocene hominoid site in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province of China.古脊椎动物学报,53(3),177. |
| MLA | Ji Xueping,et al."Tapirus yunnanensis from Shuitangba, a terminal Miocene hominoid site in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province of China".古脊椎动物学报 53.3(2015):177. |
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