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Dragon bones from the heavens: European explorations and early palaeontology in Zanda Basin of Tibet, retracing type locality ofQurliqnoria hundesiensisandHipparion(Plesiohipparion)zandaense | |
Wang, Xiaoming1,2; Jukar, Advait M.3; Tseng, Z. Jack1,4,5; Li, Qiang2,6 | |
2020-06-13 | |
发表期刊 | HISTORICAL BIOLOGY |
ISSN | 0891-2963 |
期号 | 0页码:11 |
摘要 | More than 200 years since its initial exploration, Zanda Basin, a high-elevation (3,800-4,500 m above sea), intermountain basin at the foothills of the Himalaya, is the site to some of the earliest fossil discoveries, including the holotype of extinct Tibetan antelope,Qurliqnoria hundesiensis. These fossils also hold the record, in 1823, as the first vertebrate fossils from Tibet in the scientific literature. Unfortunately, these tantalising early records have become all but forgotten for more than 100 years due to a lack of information about their localities. Our recent explorations in the 2000s revive the interests in Zanda Basin and establish a unique Zanda mammal assemblage important in the evolution of Tibetan Neogene mammals. In this paper, we retrace the expedition routes by early explorers and attempt to establish, to the extent possible, the type locality of two key mammals in the Zanda fauna:Q. hundesiensisandHipparion(Plesiohipparion)zandaense. We highlight the pivotal role Zanda fossil mammals play in the early discourse of mountain building, climate change, and mammal adaptation in high Himalaya, more than a hundred years before Chinese palaeontologists made a similar argument upon the discovery of three-toed horses, in the 1980s, at different basins in Tibet. |
关键词 | Qurliqnoria Plesiohipparion Zanda Basin Cenozoic Tibet history of exploration |
DOI | 10.1080/08912963.2020.1777551 |
关键词[WOS] | BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ; GEOCHRONOLOGY ; ELEVATION ; MAMMALIA ; PLATEAU ; FAUNA |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26030304] ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation[40702004] ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation[40730210] ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation[49872011] ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation[40128004] ; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund[KL205208] ; National Science Foundation (US)[EAR-0446699] ; National Science Foundation (US)[0444073] ; National Science Foundation (US)[0958704] ; National Science Foundation (US)[1227212] ; National Geographic Society[W22-08] |
WOS研究方向 | Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Other Topics ; Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Biology ; Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000545852400001 |
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/311034/17750 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
通讯作者 | Wang, Xiaoming |
作者单位 | 1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Dept Paleobiol, Washington, DC 20560 USA 4.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Integrat Biol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 5.Univ Calif Berkeley, Museum Paleontol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA 6.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, Xiaoming,Jukar, Advait M.,Tseng, Z. Jack,et al. Dragon bones from the heavens: European explorations and early palaeontology in Zanda Basin of Tibet, retracing type locality ofQurliqnoria hundesiensisandHipparion(Plesiohipparion)zandaense[J]. HISTORICAL BIOLOGY,2020(0):11. |
APA | Wang, Xiaoming,Jukar, Advait M.,Tseng, Z. Jack,&Li, Qiang.(2020).Dragon bones from the heavens: European explorations and early palaeontology in Zanda Basin of Tibet, retracing type locality ofQurliqnoria hundesiensisandHipparion(Plesiohipparion)zandaense.HISTORICAL BIOLOGY(0),11. |
MLA | Wang, Xiaoming,et al."Dragon bones from the heavens: European explorations and early palaeontology in Zanda Basin of Tibet, retracing type locality ofQurliqnoria hundesiensisandHipparion(Plesiohipparion)zandaense".HISTORICAL BIOLOGY .0(2020):11. |
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