Late Miocene fossil calibration from Yunnan Province for the striped rabbit <i>Nesolagus</i>

Lawrence J. FLYNN, JIN Chang-Zhu, Jay KELLEY, Nina G. JABLONSKI, JI Xue-Ping, Denise F. SU, DENG Tao, LI Qiang

doi:10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.190326

Vertebrata Palasiatica >

2019 , Vol. 57 >Issue 3: 214 - 224

DOI: https://doi.org/10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.190326

Late Miocene fossil calibration from Yunnan Province for the striped rabbit Nesolagus

Expand

1 Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Cambridge MA 02138, USA
2 Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100044, China
3 Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287, USA
4 Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560, USA
5 Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802, USA
6 Department of Paleoanthropology, Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Kunming 650118, China
7 Department of Paleobotany and Paleoecology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
8 CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment Beijing 100044, China
9 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049, China

Received date: 2018-12-22

Online published: 2019-07-20

Fold

Abstract

The rabbit from the Late Miocene Shuitangba site in Yunnan Province represents the same species as that from the older site of Lufeng, Yunnan. Both settings record a wet, swampy habitat. Premolar morphology shows that the species is an early representative of the extant striped rabbit genus, which today lives in moist habitat, and should be designated Nesolagus longisinuosus (Qiu & Han, 1986). Fossil evidence for Nesolagus by about 7 Ma in the fossil record of South China is consistent with mitochondrial evidence for the Late Miocene split of the extant species of Nesolagus. We reconstruct a scenario for the origin of Nesolagus after 8 Ma, followed by rapid spread through Southeast Asia into present-day Sumatra.

Key words： Shuitangba,Yunnan; South China; Miocene; Leporidae,Nesolagus; mitochondria

Cite this article

Lawrence J. FLYNN, JIN Chang-Zhu, Jay KELLEY, Nina G. JABLONSKI, JI Xue-Ping, Denise F. SU, DENG Tao, LI Qiang . Late Miocene fossil calibration from Yunnan Province for the striped rabbit Nesolagus[J]. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 2019 , 57(3) : 214 -224 . DOI: 10.19615/j.cnki.1000-3118.190326

References

[1]	Dong W, Ji X P, Jablonski N G et al., 2014. New materials of the Late Miocene Muntiacus from Zhaotong hominoid site in southern China. Vert PalAsiat, 52(3):316-327
[2]	Flynn L J, Winkler A J, Erbaeva M et al., 2014. The leporid datum: a Late Miocene biotic marker. Mammal Rev, 44:164-176
[3]	Jablonski N G, Su D F, Flynn L J et al., 2014. The site of Shuitangba (Yunnan, China) preserves a unique, terminal Miocene fauna. J Vert Paleont, 34(5):1251-1257
[4]	Ji X P, Jablonski N G, Su D F et al., 2013. Juvenile hominoid cranium from the terminal Miocene of Yunnan, China. Chinese Sci Bull, 58:3771-3779
[5]	Ji X P, Jablonski N G, Tong H W et al., 2015. Tapirus yunnanensis from Shuitangba, a terminal Miocene hominoid site in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province of China. Vert PalAsiat, 53(3):177-192
[6]	Jin C Z, Tomida Y, Wang Y et al., 2010. First discovery of fossil Nesolagus (Leporidae, Lagomorpha) from Southeast Asia. Sci China-Earth Sci, 53(8):1134-1140
[7]	Qi G Q, Dong W, Zheng L et al., 2006. Taxonomy, age and environment status of the Yuanmou hominoids. Chinese Sci Bull, 51:704-712
[8]	Qiu Z D, 1986. Fossil tupaiid from the hominoid locality of Lufeng, Yunnan. Vert PalAsiat, 24(4):308-319
[9]	Qiu Z D, Han D F, 1986. Fossil Lagomorpha from the hominoid locality of Lufeng, Yunnan. Acta Anthropol Sin, 5(1):41-53
[10]	Schai-Braun S C, Hackl?nder K, 2016. Family Leporidae (Hares and Rabbits). In: Wison D E, Lacher Jr T E, Mittermeier R A eds. Handbook of the Mammals of the World Vol 6, Lagomorphs and Rodents I. Barcelona: Lynx Edicions, 62-148
[11]	Schlosser M, 1924. Tertiary vertebrates from Mongolia. Palaeont Sin, Ser C, 1:1-119
[12]	Surridge A K, Timmins R T, Hewitt G M et al., 1999. Striped rabbits in Southeast Asia. Nature, 400:726
[13]	Wang X M, Grohé C, Su D F et al., 2018. A new otter of giant size, Siamogale melilutra sp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in northeastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total evidence phylogeny of lutrines. J Syst Paleont, 16(1):39-65

Options

Outlines

模态框（Modal）标题

Abstract

Cite this article

References