Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: geology and fossil mammals. (History, geology, and magnetostratigraphy)

The late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China, embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia. Everything we know about Asian mammals of the last 6 million years has a historical basis in the documentation of the geology of Yush...

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Hauptverfasser: Tedford, Richard H, Qiu, Zhan-Xiang, Flynn, Lawrence J
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Zusammenfassung:The late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China, embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia. Everything we know about Asian mammals of the last 6 million years has a historical basis in the documentation of the geology of Yushe. This volume introduces the basin in its geological setting, describes the succession of fossiliferous strata, and shows how it is dated.