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| Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep | |
| Wang, Xiaoming1,2,3; Li, Qiang3,4; Takeuchi, Gary T.5 | |
| 2016-09-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
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| 卷号 | 36期号:5 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | Modern wild sheep, Ovis, is widespread in the mountain ranges of the Caucasus through Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Tianshan-Altai, eastern Siberia, and the Rocky Mountains in North America. In Eurasia, fossil sheep are known at a few Pleistocene sites in North China, eastern Siberia, and western Europe, but are so far absent from the Tibetan Plateau. We describe an extinct sheep, Protovis himalayensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Pliocene of the Zanda Basin in western Himalaya. Smaller than the living argali, this new form shares with Ovis posterolaterally arched horncores and partially developed sinuses and possesses several transitional characters leading to Ovis. Protovis likely subsisted on C-3 plants, which are the dominant vegetation in the Zanda area during the Pliocene. With the discovery of this new genus and species, we extend the fossil record for the sheep clade into the Pliocene of the Tibetan Plateau, consistent with our previous out-of-Tibet hypothesis. Ancestral sheep in the Pliocene were presumed adapted to high altitude and cold environments, and during the Ice Age, sheep became anatomically modern and dispersed outside of the Tibetan Plateau. Both this new fossil datum and the existing molecular phylogeny suggest that the Tibetan Plateau, possibly including Tianshan-Altai, represents the ancestral home range(s) of mountain sheep and that these basal stocks were the ultimate source of all extant species. Most sheep species survived along their Pleistocene route of dispersal, offering a highly consistent pattern of zoogeography.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F2AEE746-0A5B-4F40-89B7-8EF0C04F21FDSUPPLEMENTAL DATASupplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVPCitation for this article: Wang, X., Q. Li, and G. T. Takeuchi. 2016. Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, gen. et sp. nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190. |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine |
| DOI | 10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190 |
| 关键词[WOS] | OVIS-AMMON-ANTIQUA ; QAIDAM BASIN ; ZANDA BASIN ; MAMMALIA ; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ; PLEISTOCENE ; EVOLUTION ; PLATEAU ; ARTIODACTYLA ; FRANCE |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 项目资助者 | Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science(XDB03020104) ; Major Basic Research Projects of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (973 Program)(2012CB21904) ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams ; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation(41430102 ; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund(KL205208) ; National Science Foundation (U.S.A.)(EAR-0446699 ; National Geographic Society(6004-97 ; 40702004 ; 0716507 ; 6771-00 ; 41472002) ; 0958704 ; W22-08) ; 1227212) |
| WOS研究方向 | Paleontology |
| WOS类目 | Paleontology |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000384029300004 |
| 引用统计 | |
| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7032 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） |
| 作者单位 | 1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Nanjing Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 5.La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Dept Rancho La Brea, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wang, Xiaoming,Li, Qiang,Takeuchi, Gary T.. Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep[J]. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,2016,36(5). |
| APA | Wang, Xiaoming,Li, Qiang,&Takeuchi, Gary T..(2016).Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep.JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,36(5). |
| MLA | Wang, Xiaoming,et al."Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep".JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 36.5(2016). |
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