A falconid from the Late Miocene of northwestern China yields further evidence of transition in Late Neogene steppe communities

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	A falconid from the Late Miocene of northwestern China yields further evidence of transition in Late Neogene steppe communities
	Li, Zhiheng 1; Zhou, Zhonghe2 ; Deng, Tao2 ; Li, Qiang 2; Clarke, Julia A.1
	2014-07-01
发表期刊	AUK
卷号	131 期号:3 页码:335-350
文章类型	Article
摘要	Although the family Falconidae, which includes extant falcons and caracaras, has a long evolutionary history, most previously reported fossils referred to this family are isolated single elements. We report a new species, Falco hezhengensis sp. nov., represented by a nearly complete and articulated skeleton from the Late Miocene deposits of Linxia Basin in northwestern China. The new fossil shares an array of derived morphologies with the genus Falco, and analysis of the largest morphological dataset for Falconidae, sampling most genera, identifies the specimen as a new stem kestrel. The phylogeny shows a high degree of congruence with published molecular phylogenies and time trees supporting a Miocene radiation of Falconidae. The species provides a new calibration for the divergence of extant kestrels from other Falco. Remains of a small mammal, a jerboa (Dipodidae), are preserved in the abdominal region of the specimen. Integrated with data from other avian remains from the Linxia Basin, the new fossil provides further support for changes in the open steppe environment of Central Asia since the Late Miocene. Changes in falconid ecology and diet, shifts in small-mammal abundances, as well as the extinction of the Central Asian ostrich may be involved in community turnover in the Late Neogene.
关键词	Aves Falco Fossil Jerboa Late Miocene Linxia Basin
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	PHYLOGENY ; AVES ; BIRDS ; EVOLUTION ; PLIOCENE ; HISTORY ; KESTRELS ; TIBET
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Zoology
WOS类目	Ornithology
WOS记录号	WOS:000340227600010
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5096
专题	古哺乳动物研究室古低等脊椎动物研究室
作者单位	1.Univ Texas Austin, Dept Geol Sci, Jackson Sch Geosci, Austin, TX 78712 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Zhiheng,Zhou, Zhonghe,Deng, Tao,et al. A falconid from the Late Miocene of northwestern China yields further evidence of transition in Late Neogene steppe communities[J]. AUK,2014,131(3):335-350.
APA	Li, Zhiheng,Zhou, Zhonghe,Deng, Tao,Li, Qiang,&Clarke, Julia A..(2014).A falconid from the Late Miocene of northwestern China yields further evidence of transition in Late Neogene steppe communities.AUK,131(3),335-350.
MLA	Li, Zhiheng,et al."A falconid from the Late Miocene of northwestern China yields further evidence of transition in Late Neogene steppe communities".AUK 131.3(2014):335-350.

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