Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1774, 2013, Pages

  Tseng, Z Jack ^a,b,c   Wang, Xiaoming ^a,b,c,d   Slater, Graham J ^e   Takeuchi, Gary T ^b,f   Li, Qiang ^d   Liu, Juan ^d,g   Xie, Guangpu ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f George C Page Museum   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h Gansu Provincial Museum   (China)

Author keywords

Asia; Felidae; First appearance; Himalaya; Miocene; Pantherinae

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MIOCENE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; UPLIFT;

ASIA; CHINA; HIMALAYAS; XIZANG;

FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; PANTHERINAE; UNCIA UNCIA; ZANCLEA;

EID: 84887508218     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2686     Document Type: Article

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