Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals

Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin

Lawrence J. Flynn, Wen-Yu Wu (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

227 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-024-1049-5 (ISBN)

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This volume focuses on small mammal fossils from extinct Asian faunas of about 1 to 7 million years ago in North China. These played a role in the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a modern science in that country. This second volume of the sub-series Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals in the Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology book series deals with a rich microfauna fossil record; megafauna follow in subsequent volumes.

This research on Yushe Basin fossils provides a view of changes in northeast Asian terrestrial faunas during the Late Neogene, and therefore is a key to the biochronology for a vast part of the continent. The faunas recovered by the multinational team working in this region represent changes in small mammal communities of the Yushe Basin, revealed on a finer time scale that has not been achieved previously. Detailed systematic studies on small mammal groups proceeded under the care of specialists are outlined in the chapters of this volume. Paleontologists, ecologists and evolutionary biologists will find this book appealing.

Dr. Lawrence J. Flynn is Assistant Director of the American School of Prehistoric Research at the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Wen-Yu Wu is a researcher at the Laboratory of Paleomammalogy, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.

1 Small Mammal Exploration in Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province Lawrence J. Flynn and Wen-Yu Wu.-
2 The Lipotyphla of Yushe Basin   Lawrence J. Flynn and Wen-Yu Wu.-
3 The Bats of Yushe Basin Lawrence J. Flynn.-
4 The Lagomorphs (Ochotonidae, Leporidae) of Yushe Basin Wen-Yu Wu and Lawrence J. Flynn.-
5 Yushe Squirrels (Sciuridae, Rodentia) Zhu-Ding Qiu.-
6 Yushe Beavers (Castoridae, Rodentia) Xiaofeng Xu, Qiang Li, and Lawrence J. Flynn.-
7 Yushe Dipodoidea Zhu-Ding Qiu.-
8 A Dormouse (Gliridae, Rodentia) from Yushe Basin Wen-Yu Wu.-
9 The Zokors of Yushe Basin Shao-Hua Zheng.-
10 The Hamsters of Yushe Basin   Wen-Yu Wu and Lawrence J. Flynn.-
11 Yushe Basin Prometheomyini (Arvicolinae, Rodentia)   Wen-Yu Wu and Lawrence J. Flynn.-
12 Fossil Arvicolini of Yushe Basin: Facts and Problems of Arvicoline Biochronology of North China Ying-Qi Zhang.-
13 The Shanxi Gerbils   Lawrence J. Flynn and Wen-Yu Wu.-
14   The Murine Rodents of Yushe Basin   Wen-Yu Wu, Lawrence J. Flynn and Zhu-Ding Qiu.-
15 The Bamboo Rats and Porcupines of Yushe Basin 16 Dynamic Small Mammal Assemblages of Yushe Basin Lawrence J. Flynn and Wen-Yu Wu.-
APPENDIX Log of Surface Collections and Initial Screening Results for Microvertebrate Localities of Yushe Basin.-

Erscheinungsdatum	10.06.2017
Reihe/Serie	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Reihe/Serie	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Zusatzinfo	16 Illustrations, color; 76 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 227 p. 92 illus., 16 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
Schlagworte	Arvicoline Biochronology • Bamboo Rats and Porcupines • Beavers and Squirrels • lagomorphs • Late Cenozoic • Lipotyphla • micromammal paleontology • Murine Rodents • paleontology of Yushe • Small Mammal Assemblages • small mammal fossils
ISBN-10	94-024-1049-X / 940241049X
ISBN-13	978-94-024-1049-5 / 9789402410495
Zustand	Neuware