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| New study sheds light on the impressive intraspecific variation of Quaternary Asiatic black bears in China | |
Hu, Haiqian1,2,3,4; Tong, Haowen1,2,4 ; Yu, Haidong3; Han, Fei5; Shi, Jingsong1,4; Xiong, Can3; Yu, Yang1,2,4; Ilyas, Muhammad1,2,4; Wang, Xunqian3; Chen, Xi6
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| 2023-02-10 | |
| 发表期刊 | QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
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| ISSN | 1040-6182 |
| 卷号 | 646期号:0页码:22-33 |
| 摘要 | Asiatic black bears have long been recognized as key members of the Quaternary mammalian fauna in South China. Despite this, for decades, taxonomic remarks since the Early Pleistocene Ursus thibetanus have been controversial, and the intraspecific variations of it remain unresolved. We here described a nearly complete black bear skull from the late Mid-Pleistocene or the early Late-Pleistocene (ca. 134 +/- 22-133 +/- 30 ka) of the Sifangdi Cave, Yanjinggou area, Chongqing. The studied material was compared with other U. thibetanus materials from the Quaternary localities in China. Morphological analyses revealed impressive intraspecific variations and that U. t. kokeni can be deemed as an invalid paleosubspecies, which discernibly corresponds to all living subspecies of U. thibetanus. Based on isolated teeth and several skulls from various localities, we proposed that U. thibetanus primitinus was a black bear with small-sized skull and upper molars, while U. thibetanus since the Mid-Pleistocene was a larger black bear with significantly larger cranium and upper molars, in accordance with extant subspecies. Furthermore, in response to the prominent Mid-Pleistocene climate transition and ecosystem changes, it is evident that black bears tend to have increased their body sizes, expanded their living territories, and perhaps even arrived at the localities in North China since the Mid-Pleistocene. |
| 关键词 | Ursus thibetanus Sifangdi cave Taxonomic remarks Intraspecific variations Quaternary |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.10.007 |
| 关键词[WOS] | URSUS-THIBETANUS ; MAMMALS ; FOSSIL ; FAUNA ; CAVE ; AGE |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 资助项目 | foundation in 2021 of Chongqing Planning and Natural Resources Bureau ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41772174] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[2019QZKK0705] ; Yunnan Fundamental Research Project[202201AT070211] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program[42172021] |
| WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
| WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000926691000001 |
| 出版者 | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22292 |
| 专题 | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 |
| 通讯作者 | Hu, Haiqian; Chen, Xi |
| 作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Chongqing Bur Geol & Mineral Resource Explorat & D, Chongqing Key Lab Paleontol & Paleoenvironm Coevol, 208 Hydrogeol & Engn Geol Team, Chongqing 400700, Peoples R China 4.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 5.Yunnan Univ, Yunnan Key Lab Earth Syst Sci, Kunming 650091, Yunnan, Peoples R China 6.Nanjing Normal Univ, Dept Cultural Heritage & Museol, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hu, Haiqian,Tong, Haowen,Yu, Haidong,et al. New study sheds light on the impressive intraspecific variation of Quaternary Asiatic black bears in China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2023,646(0):22-33. |
| APA | Hu, Haiqian.,Tong, Haowen.,Yu, Haidong.,Han, Fei.,Shi, Jingsong.,...&Chen, Xi.(2023).New study sheds light on the impressive intraspecific variation of Quaternary Asiatic black bears in China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,646(0),22-33. |
| MLA | Hu, Haiqian,et al."New study sheds light on the impressive intraspecific variation of Quaternary Asiatic black bears in China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 646.0(2023):22-33. |
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