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15 September 1996, Volume 34 Issue 03

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A NEW MIOCENE XENOCYPRININE (CYPRINIDAE) FROM HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE, NORTHEAST CHINA AND SUCCESSION OF LATE CENOZOIC FISH FAUNAS OF EAST ASIA

Chang Mee —mann, Chen Yiyu, Tong Haowen

1996, 34(03):  165-183. 

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A new genus and species of Xenocyprininae (Eoxenocypris liui) is described from a placer gold mine northwest of Hua 'nan County, Heilongjiang Province. The distribution of the extant members of the subfamily is limited to the eastern lowlands of China and Hanoi Basin (Song Hong Valley), northern Vietnam. In Late Cenozoic, however, in addition to their recent area of habitat they were also widely spread in Japan, mainly in the lacustrine deposits in the western side of the island arch along the Sea of Japan.

RESTUDY OF SHANTUNGOSUCHUS BRACHYCEPHALUS YOUNG, 1982

Lü Junchang, Wu Xiaochun

1996, 34(03):  184-201. 

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Three species have been referred to Shantungosuchus to date. The type species S. chuhsienensis (Young, 1961) is represented by an articulated skeleton preserved as an impression of its ventral surface. S. hangjinensis was recently described by Wu et al. (1994) on the basis of an incomplete skull (with the mandible) and the part of the postcranial skeleton. The third species is S. brachycephalus, which will be restudied in the present paper. S. brachycephalus was erected by Young for a specimen, consisting of partial skull and some postcranial elements (V4020). It was pub lished in one of Young's posthumous papers in 1982. Because the specimen was not fully prepaired when it was studied, Young's original description is very simple and there exist errors in his identification of bone structures. For example, the four associated cervical vertebrae were described as osteoderms; the teeth are point rather than blunt in tip; and the left ramus of the mandible was identified as the humerus. Further repairation of the specimen shows many unknown features, especially characters from the palate, mandible and vertebrae. Those are significant in our understanding of the morphology of S. brachycephalus and also important in establishing interspecific relationships within the genus.

The Shanghuang Mammalian Fauna, Middle Eocene of Jiangsu: History of Discovery and Significance

Qi Tao, K. Christopher Beard, Wang Banyue, Mary R. Dawson, Guo Jianwei, Li Chuankui

1996, 34(03):  202-214. 

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EVOLUTION OF CENOZOIC MAMMALIAN FAUNAL REGIONS OF CHINA

Tong Yongsheng, Zheng Shaohua, Qiu Zhuding

1996, 34(03):  215-227. 

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Since the Cenozoic, changes of mammals in taxonomic composition and distribution have taken place in China, mainly due to collision of plates, changes of topography and climate. The paper discusses some problems of ecology and biogeography involving the Chinese Cenozoic mammals, after the recognition of the 18 mammal ages based on nature and magnitude of the faunal changes (Tong et al., 1995).

DISCOVERY OF VERTEBRATE FOSSILS AND PALEOLITHIC ARTIFACTS IN DANJIANG SUBMER GING AREA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Huang Xueshi, Zheng Shaohua, Li Chaorong, Zhang Zhaoqun, Guo Jianwei, Liu LIPing

1996, 34(03):  228-234. 

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PLEISTOCENE FOSSIL PRIMATES FROM LUODING, GUANGDONG

Gu Yumin, Huang Wanbo, Chen Dayuan, Guo Xingfu, Nina G. Jablonski

1996, 34(03):  235-250. 

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Materials of the fossil primales were collected from two caves: Xiashan cave and Shanbeiyan cave, Luoding County, Guangdong province. Luoding County is locatedin Southwest Dayunwu mountain and is contiguous to Guangxi. The elements of fauna from Luoding has been reported (Huang et al. 1988;' Chen, 1988). In this paper we made the taxonomy of primate in detail. These fossil primates were assigned to three families: Pongidae, Hylobatidae and Cercopithecidae. The fossil pongo have been reported by Gu et al. (1987). 91 teeth are described in this paper. 60 of them are from Xiashan cave, other 31 teeth were collected from shanbeiyan. The gibbons are determined to Hylobates concolor and were collected from Xiashan cave. In Cercopithecidae there are Rhinopithecus sp., cf. Pygathrix nemaeus, cf. Trachypithecus phyrei, Trachypithecus sp., Trachypithecus francois, cf. Macaca assamensis, Macaca thibetana, Macaca mulatta and Macaca sp. These materials except T. francois, all appeared in two caves. T. francois was only found from Xiashan cave. In the Xiashan cave and the Shanbeiyan cave the assemblage of the fossil primates see the Chinese text.