Earliest record of Sinicuon in Zanda Basin, southern Tibet and implications for hypercarnivores in cold environments

The “out of Tibet” hypothesis envisions late Cenozoic Tibetan mammals acquiring adaptations to cold environments and being ancestral to several Eurasian megafaunal species in the Pleistocene. Here we report an early record of a hypercarnivorous canid, Sinicuon cf. Sinicuon dubius, from Zanda Basin i...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Quaternary international 2015-01, Vol.355, p.3-10
Hauptverfasser:	Wang, Xiaoming, Li, Qiang, Xie, Guangpu
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Canidae Himalaya Pliocene–Pleistocene Sinicuon Tibet Zoogeography
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