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Tarsal morphology of ischyromyid rodents from the middle Eocene of China gives an insight into the group's diversity in Central Asia | |
Fostowicz-Frelik, Lucja1,2,3; Lopez-Torres, Sergi3,4,5; Li, Qian1,2 | |
2021-06-02 | |
发表期刊 | SCIENTIFIC REPORTS |
ISSN | 2045-2322 |
卷号 | 11期号:1页码:11 |
摘要 | Ischyromyids are a group of large rodents with the earliest fossil record known from the late Paleocene (Clarkforkian) of North America; they are considered the earliest fossil representatives of Rodentia of modern aspect. Ischyromyids dominated early Paleogene small-mammal assemblages of North America and in the latest Paleocene migrated to western Europe and to Asia; in the latter they survived only to the beginning of the late Eocene, but were never abundant. Here we describe for the first time the calcanei of ischyromyids from the early middle Eocene of the Erlian Basin in Nei Mongol, northern China. These calcanei document the existence of three species. The morphology of the studied tarsal bones overall suggests ambulatory locomotion for these animals ('slow cursors'), similar to that of the coypu and porcupines, but one form shows more marked cursorial capabilities. These differences show that Chinese ischyromyids, although rare, had attained greater taxonomic diversity by the middle Eocene in Nei Mongol than estimated from dental remains. We also address the question of the morphological and ecological divergence of these ischyromyids in relation to their North American counterparts, as well as the issue of a direct dispersal route from North America to Asia in the early Eocene. |
DOI | 10.1038/s41598-021-90796-1 |
关键词[WOS] | ERLIAN BASIN ; NEI MONGOL ; INNER-MONGOLIA ; MAMMALIA ; ADAPTATIONS ; PALEOCENE ; PROVINCE ; ANATOMY ; GLIRES |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Science Centre (Cracow, Poland)[2015/18/E/NZ8/00637] ; Special Fund for Fossil Excavation and Preparation, Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; AMNH Kalbfleisch Postdoctoral Research Fellowship[41572013] |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000678661100008 |
出版者 | NATURE RESEARCH |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/18210 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
通讯作者 | Fostowicz-Frelik, Lucja |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Polish Acad Sci, Inst Paleobiol, PL-00818 Warsaw, Poland 4.Amer Museum Nat Hist, Div Paleontol, New York, NY 10024 USA 5.New York Consortium Evolutionary Primatol, New York, NY USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fostowicz-Frelik, Lucja,Lopez-Torres, Sergi,Li, Qian. Tarsal morphology of ischyromyid rodents from the middle Eocene of China gives an insight into the group's diversity in Central Asia[J]. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,2021,11(1):11. |
APA | Fostowicz-Frelik, Lucja,Lopez-Torres, Sergi,&Li, Qian.(2021).Tarsal morphology of ischyromyid rodents from the middle Eocene of China gives an insight into the group's diversity in Central Asia.SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,11(1),11. |
MLA | Fostowicz-Frelik, Lucja,et al."Tarsal morphology of ischyromyid rodents from the middle Eocene of China gives an insight into the group's diversity in Central Asia".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 11.1(2021):11. |
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