The first skull of the earliest giant panda

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	The first skull of the earliest giant panda
	Jin, Changzhu; Ciochon, Russell L.; Dong, Wei; Hunt, Robert M., Jr.; Liu, Jinyi; Jaeger, Marc; Zhu, Qizhi; russell-ciochon@uiowa.edu
	2007
发表期刊	P NATL ACAD SCI USA
ISSN	0027-8424
卷号	104 期号:26
摘要	Fossils of the giant panda Ailuropoda (Order Carnivora, Family Ursidae) are largely isolated teeth, mandibles, and a few rare skulls, known from the late Pliocene to late Pleistocene in China and Southeast Asia. Much of this material represents a Pleistocene chronospecies, Ailuropoda baconi, an animal larger than the living giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca. The earliest certain record of Ailuropoda is the late Pliocene chronospecies, Ailuropoda microta, smaller than either A. baconi or A. melanoleuca, and previously known only from teeth and a few mandibles from karst caves in south China. Here, we report the discovery of the first skull of A. microta, establishing its cranial anatomy and demonstrating that the specialized cranial and dental adaptations of Ailuropoda for durophagous feeding behavior centered on bamboo were already evident in this late Pliocene species. The skull from Jinyin cave (Guangxi) and dental remains from other karst localities in southeastern China show that Ailuropoda microta occupied south China from approximate to 2 to 2.4 Myr ago after a marked global climatic deterioration. Dental and basicranial anatomy indicate a less specialized morphology early in the history of the lineage and support derivation of the giant panda from the Miocene Asian ursid Ailurarctos.
关键词	Ailuropoda China Asia
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收录类别	SCI收录
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4907
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	russell-ciochon@uiowa.edu
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jin, Changzhu,Ciochon, Russell L.,Dong, Wei,et al. The first skull of the earliest giant panda[J]. P NATL ACAD SCI USA,2007,104(26).
APA	Jin, Changzhu.,Ciochon, Russell L..,Dong, Wei.,Hunt, Robert M., Jr..,Liu, Jinyi.,...&russell-ciochon@uiowa.edu.(2007).The first skull of the earliest giant panda.P NATL ACAD SCI USA,104(26).
MLA	Jin, Changzhu,et al."The first skull of the earliest giant panda".P NATL ACAD SCI USA 104.26(2007).

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