KMS Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
TWO OLD WORLD VULTURES FROM THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE OF NORTHEASTERN CHINA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF AEGYPIINAE | |
Zhang, Zihui1; Huang, Yunping2; James, Helen F.3; Hou, Lianhai1,4; zihuizhang@mail.cnu.edu.cn; jamesh@si.edu | |
2012 | |
发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY |
ISSN | 0272-4634 |
卷号 | 32期号:1页码:117-124 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | Two new fossil crania of Old World vultures (Accipitridae, Aegypiinae), from the middle Pleistocene Jinniushan site of Liaoning Province, northeastern China, were studied. A new species of Aegypius, A. jinniushanensis, is erected and characterized by possessing a less developed processus zygomaticus and processus suprameaticus, as well as a relatively larger condylus occipitalis, compared with A. monachus. Another specimen, assigned to Torgos, is the first record of this genus from outside Africa. The presence of two large vultures, apparently in the same feeding group, in the Jinniushan faunal assemblage suggests that there were more opportunities for interspecific competition among scavengers in the middle Pleistocene of northeastern China than at present. By analogy with phylogenetically related modern vultures, we suggest that niche differentiation between the two extinct species may have reduced the degree of competition between them. The disappearance of the genus Torgos from northeast China might be the result of the Pleistocene extinction of a suite of large mammalian herbivores, and the loss of grassland and savannah from this region. |
关键词 | Body-size Guild Aves |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
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关键词[WOS] | BODY-SIZE ; GUILD ; AVES |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Paleontology |
WOS类目 | Paleontology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000302178900009 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4351 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
通讯作者 | zihuizhang@mail.cnu.edu.cn; jamesh@si.edu |
作者单位 | 1.Capital Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Beijing 100048, Peoples R China 2.Peking Univ, Sch Archaeol & Museol, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China 3.Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Dept Vertebrate Zool, Washington, DC 20013 USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang, Zihui,Huang, Yunping,James, Helen F.,et al. TWO OLD WORLD VULTURES FROM THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE OF NORTHEASTERN CHINA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF AEGYPIINAE[J]. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,2012,32(1):117-124. |
APA | Zhang, Zihui,Huang, Yunping,James, Helen F.,Hou, Lianhai,zihuizhang@mail.cnu.edu.cn,&jamesh@si.edu.(2012).TWO OLD WORLD VULTURES FROM THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE OF NORTHEASTERN CHINA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF AEGYPIINAE.JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,32(1),117-124. |
MLA | Zhang, Zihui,et al."TWO OLD WORLD VULTURES FROM THE MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE OF NORTHEASTERN CHINA AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION AND BIOGEOGRAPHY OF AEGYPIINAE".JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 32.1(2012):117-124. |
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