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Palaeontologia Sinica (New Series C,Whole Number 193,Number 29) Paracerathere Fossils of China
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Palaeontologia Sinica (New Series C,Whole Number 193,Number 29) Paracerathere Fossils of China
中国的巨犀化石-中国古生物志総号第193冊新丙種第29号
Language:  Chinese and English bilingual
Author:  Qiu Zhanxiang and Wang Banyue
Pub. Date:  2007-01 Weight:   kg ISBN:  9787030191274
Format:  Paperback Pages:  396 with figures and 46 plates
Subject:  Paleontology > Vertebrate
Series:  Palaeontologia Sinica, New Series C Size:  210×295mm
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The paraceratheres are a group of thinoceroses autochtonous and endemic almost exclusively to Asia, with only sparse findings in Europe. Their giant size and some features so distinctive from the living thinoceroses have attracted much attention not only of specialists, but also of laymen. They constitute one of the most heatedly debated fossil groups in mammalian taxonomy. Opinions differ not only at generic and specific levels, but also at family level. Ultimately such a discrepancy has its root in the inadequacy of their fossils. In laymen’s eyes, paracerathere fossils seem rather abundant. Here we may feel the effect of the “size.” People may be more impressed by a few huge bones of paraceratheres rather than by a small box full of micromammal fossils. In fact, there are only five incomplete skulls in association with their mandibles in all known paracerathere materials. The only two paracerathere skeletons often referred to in scientific papers are in fact composite. Given the above limitations, China has indisputable superiority in this respect.  In China, in addition to large quantity of isolated jaws, teeth and postcranial bones, there complete skulls with mandibles have been found (Juxia sharamurenensis, Paraceratherium lepidum, and Dzungariotherium orgosense), of which the first is an almost complete skeleton, and the second possesses an almost complete vertebral column. Most of these materials have been briefly reported.
●巨犀を柯氏犀亜科と巨犀亜科に分け、中国で発見された巨犀亜科化石の発見?研究史、分類地位、命名、進化趨勢、環境変化との関係などを系統的に総括する。現有する標本のうち、沙拉木倫始巨犀と美麗巨犀、吐魯番准嘎爾巨犀の一部分の骨格について詳述、特に前2者は筋肉復元と機能分析を試み、外形?体重?年齢を推定する。英文摘要。印数1000冊。(図版46頁、図48、表58)






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