Mio-Pleistocene Zanda Basin biostratigraphy and geochronology, pre-Ice Age fauna, and mammalian evolution in western Himalaya

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 374, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-95

  Wang, Xiaoming ^a,b,e   Li, Qiang ^b   Xie, Guangpu ^c   Saylor, Joel E ^d   Tseng, Zhijie J ^a,e   Takeuchi, Gary T ^f   Deng, Tao ^b   Wang, Yang ^g   Hou, Sukuan ^b   Liu, Juan ^b,h   Zhang, Chunfu ⁱ   Wang, Ning ^b   Wu, Feixiang ^b  

^a NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^c Gansu Provincial Museum   (China)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries   (United States)

^g FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁱ FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fossil mammals; Miocene Pliocene Pleistocene; Stratigraphy; Tibetan Plateau; Zanda Basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN; BIOCHRONOLOGY; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CORRELATION; FISH; FOSSIL RECORD; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

CHINA; FAR EAST; HIMALAYAS; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; XIZANG; ZANDA BASIN;

APODEMUS; COELODONTA; EQUUS; HIPPARION; MAMMALIA; MELES; MIMOMYS; MONODACTYLIDAE; NYCTEREUTES; OCHOTONA; OCHOTONIDAE; PANTHERA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 84875066226     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.01.007     Document Type: Article

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