| SOME EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS OF EQUUS EISENMANNAE (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) IN THE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE OF LONGDAN, CHINA, IN COMPARISON TO MODERN EQUUS |
| Wang, Shi-Qi; Deng, Tao
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| 2011
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| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
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| 卷号 | 31期号:6页码:1356-1365 |
| 文章类型 | Article
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| 摘要 | The investigation of the evolution and speciation of Equus in Eurasia is, despite the abundance of available material, often hampered by a lack of stratigraphic information. Here we present the results of our study of material belonging to Equus eisenmannae excavated from sequential 'lower' and 'upper' levels of the loess section at Longdan, China, which has been dated to ca. 2.55-1.85 Ma (early Nihewanian age). The morphological differences between fossils found in the 'upper level' and those from the 'lower level' were quantified using univariate and multivariate analyses. Quantitative variation among modern Equus is discussed in order to address issues of potential speciation events and evolutionary trends seen in the fossil material. We also discuss the evolutionary level of E. eisenmannae by comparing our sample with E. sanmeniensis. Results show that quantitative differences between fossils of E. eisenmannae from the different levels at Longdan approximate and do not exceed intraspecific variation among modern species of Equus, although the variation is smaller than in the extant species E. hemionus. Thus, no sufficient evidence of speciation within the two sequential levels could be found. However, some common evolutionary trends of modern Equus are evident in E. eisenmannae, even though E. eisenmannae is not considered the immediate ancestor of modern Equus. |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology
; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
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| 关键词[WOS] | PLEISTOCENE
; DISPERSAL
; HORSES
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| 收录类别 | SCI
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| 语种 | 英语
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| WOS研究方向 | Paleontology
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| WOS类目 | Paleontology
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| WOS记录号 | WOS:000298952600014
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/2122
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| 专题 | 古哺乳动物研究室
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| 作者单位 | Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
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Wang, Shi-Qi,Deng, Tao. SOME EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS OF EQUUS EISENMANNAE (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) IN THE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE OF LONGDAN, CHINA, IN COMPARISON TO MODERN EQUUS[J]. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,2011,31(6):1356-1365.
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Wang, Shi-Qi,&Deng, Tao.(2011).SOME EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS OF EQUUS EISENMANNAE (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) IN THE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE OF LONGDAN, CHINA, IN COMPARISON TO MODERN EQUUS.JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,31(6),1356-1365.
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Wang, Shi-Qi,et al."SOME EVOLUTIONARY TRENDS OF EQUUS EISENMANNAE (MAMMALIA, PERISSODACTYLA) IN THE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE OF LONGDAN, CHINA, IN COMPARISON TO MODERN EQUUS".JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 31.6(2011):1356-1365.
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