Overview
- Increases the understanding of evolution of Yushe Basin's faunas as paleobiological communities
- Presents the small mammal fossil record of this region in the biostratigraphic framework dated by magnetostratigraphy
- Demonstrates advances in micromammal paleontology that centers around the principle of attention to biostratigraphic detail
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology (VERT)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals
Book Subtitle: Volume II: Small Mammal Fossils of Yushe Basin
Editors: Lawrence J. Flynn, Wen-Yu Wu
Series Title: Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1049-5Published: 01 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1476-9Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1050-1Published: 20 May 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-9077
Series E-ISSN: 1877-9085
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 227
Number of Illustrations: 76 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Paleontology, Geology, Vertebrates, Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography, Evolutionary Biology, Biodiversity