A mammalian fossil from the Dingqing Formation in the Lunpola Basin, northern Tibet, and its relevance to age and paleo-altimetry

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 57, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 261-269

  Deng, Tao ^a   Wang, ShiQi ^a   Xie, GuangPu ^b   Li, Qiang ^a   Hou, SuKuan ^a   Sun, BoYang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Gansu Provincial Museum   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dingqing Formation; Lunpola Basin; Miocene; paleo altimetry; Rhinocerotidae; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; RHINOCEROTIDAE;

EID: 84856087950     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-011-4773-8     Document Type: Article

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