A new spiral-horned antelope, <i>Gazellospira tsaparangensis</i> sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain

doi:10.1007/s10914-023-09692-2

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	*A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis* sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain**
	Wang, Xiaoming 1,2; Li, Qiang2,3 ; Tseng, Z. Jack 1,4
	2023-11-28
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION
ISSN	1064-7554
页码	22
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaoming(xwang@nhm.org) ; Tseng, Z. Jack()
摘要	Explorations in the past 20 years in the Plio-Pleistocene Zanda Basin (3,800-4,500 m above sea level) along the northern slopes of the Himalaya Mountains have substantially enriched our understanding of the paleoenvironments of the Tibetan Plateau and associated biologic evolution. Many elements of the mammalian fauna recovered are either new to science or shed new light about their special adaptations in this high elevation basin. Here we describe a new species of twisted-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis, with a heteronymous spiral. Its small size and primitive morphology, such as relatively short horncore with less twisting, thin frontal bones, a lack of frontal and horncore sinuses, small size of supraorbital foramina, and lack of an anterior keel, helps to place it at the base of genus Gazellospira, substantially more stem-ward than the type species G. torticornis from the Plio-Pleistocene of Europe and western Asia. With an estimated age of 3.62 Ma, this also places G. tsaparangensis as one of the early occurrences in Eurasia, although some fragmentary records in Turkey may be slightly earlier. Considering this early appearance and primitive morphology, G. tsaparangensis once again may be a case of the 'out-of-Tibet' model of megafauna origin, with earlier progenitors adapted to cold environments in high Tibet before expanding their range to the rest of Eurasia.
关键词	Bovidae Gazellospira Tibetan Plateau Zanda Basin Zoogeography
DOI	10.1007/s10914-023-09692-2
关键词[WOS]	PLEISTOCENE ; MAMMALIA ; ARTIODACTYLA ; BOVIDAE ; TIBET ; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ; FOSSILS ; FAUNA ; SITE
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]
项目资助者	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams, Chinese National Natural Science Foundation ; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund ; National Science Foundation (US) ; National Geographic Society
WOS研究方向	Evolutionary Biology ; Zoology
WOS类目	Evolutionary Biology ; Zoology
WOS记录号	WOS:001109119900001
出版者	SPRINGER
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23115
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaoming; Tseng, Z. Jack
作者单位	1.Nat Hist Museum Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Integrat Biol & Museum Paleontol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaoming,Li, Qiang,Tseng, Z. Jack. A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain[J]. JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION,2023:22.
APA	Wang, Xiaoming,Li, Qiang,&Tseng, Z. Jack.(2023).A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain.JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION,22.
MLA	Wang, Xiaoming,et al."A new spiral-horned antelope, Gazellospira tsaparangensis sp. nov., from Pliocene Zanda Basin in Himalaya Mountain".JOURNAL OF MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION (2023):22.