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Title Fossil mammals of Asia : Neogene biostratigraphy and chronology / edited by Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius
Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 732 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
Contents Toward a continental Asian Neogene biostratigraphic and geochronological framework / Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn, and Mikael Fortelius -- Neogene land mammal stages/ages of China : toward the goal to establish an Asian land mammal stage/age scheme / Zhan-xiang Qiu, Zhu-ding Qiu, Tao Deng, Chuan-kui Li, Zhao-qun Zhang, Ban-yue Wang, and Xiao-ming Wang -- North China Neogene biochronology : a Chinese standard / Michael O. Woodburne, Richard H. Tedford, and Everett H. Lindsay -- A single point base definition of the Xiejian age as an exemplar for refining Chinese land mammal ages / Jin Meng, Jie Ye, Wen-yu Wu, Xi-jun Ni, and Shun-dong Bi -- Early Miocene Xiejiahe and Sihong fossil localities and their faunas, eastern China / Zhu-ding Qiu and Zhan-xiang Qiu -- Neogene faunal succession and biochronology of central Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) / Zhu-ding Qiu, Xiao-ming Wang, and Qiang Li -- Mammalian biochronology of the late Miocene Bahe Formation / Zhao-qun Zhang, Anu Kaakinen, Li-ping Liu, Juha Pekka Lunkka, Sevket Sen, Wulf A. Gose, Zhu-ding Qiu, Shao-hua Zheng, and Mikael Fortelius -- Stratigraphy and paleoecology of the classical Dragon Bone localities of Baode County, Shaanxi Province / Anu Kaakinen, Benjamin H. Passey, Zhao-qun Zhang, Li-ping Liu, Lauri J. Pesonen, and Mikael Fortelius -- Review of the litho-, bio-, and chronostratigraphy in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei, China / Bao-quan Cai, Shao-hua Zheng, Joseph C. Liddicoat, and Qiang Li -- Late Cenozoic biostratigraphy of the Linxia Basin, northwestern China / Tao Deng, Zhan-xiang Qiu, Ban-yue Wang, Xiaoming Wang, and Su-kuan Hou -- Neogene mammalian biostratigraphy and geochronology of the Tibetan Plateau / Xiaoming Wang, Qiang Li, Zhu-ding Qiu, Guang-pu Xie, Ban-yue Wang, Zhan-xiang Qiu, Zhijie J. Tseng, Gary T. Takeuchi, and Tao Deng -- Hominoid-producing localities and biostratigraphy in Yunnan / Wei Dong and Guo-qin Qi -- Miocene land mammals and stratigraphy of Japan / Yukimitsu Tomida, Hideo Nakaya, Haruo Saegusa, Kazunori Miyata, and Akira Fukuchi -- Pliocene land mammals of Japan / Ryohei Nakagawa, Yoshinari Kawamura, and Hiroyuki Taruno -- The Siwaliks and Neogene evolutionary biology in South Asia / Lawrence J. Flynn, Everett H. Lindsay, David Pilbeam, S. Mahmood Raza, Michèle E. Morgan, John C. Barry, Catherine E. Badgley, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, I.U. Cheema, Abdul Rahim Rajpar, and Neil D. Opdyke -- The Neogene Siwaliks of the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan / John C. Barry, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Catherine E. Badgley, Lawrence J. Flynn, Hannele Peltonen, I.U. Cheema, David Pilbeam, Everett H. Lindsay, S. Mahmood Raza, Abdul Rahim Rajpar, and Michèle E. Morgan -- Mammalian Neogene biostratigraphy of the Sulaiman Province, Pakistan / Pierre-Olivier Antoine, Gregoire Métais, Maeva J. Orliac, J.-Y. Crochet, Lawrence J. Flynn, Laurent Marivaux, Abdul Rahim Rajpar, G. Roohi, and Jean-Loup Welcomme -- Indian Neogene Siwalik mammalian biostratigraphy : an overview / Rajeev Patnaik -- Paleobiogeography and South Asian small mammals : Neogene latitudinal faunal variation / Lawrence J. Flynn and Wilma Wessels -- Advances in the biochronology and biostratigraphy of the continental Neogene of Myanmar / Olivier Chavasseau, Aung Aung Khyaw, Yaowalak Chaimanee, Pauline Coster, Edouard-Georges Emonet, Aung Naing Soe, Mana Rugbumrung, Soe Thura Tun, and Jean-Jacques Jaeger -- Miocene mammal biostratigraphy of central Mongolia (Valley of Lakes) : new results / Gudrun Daxner-Höck, Demchig Badamgarav, Margarita Erbajeva, and Ursula Bettina Göhlich -- Late Cenozoic mammal faunas of the Baikalian region : composition, biochronology, dispersal, and correlation with Central Asia / Margarita Erbajeva and Nadezhda Alexeeva -- New data on Miocene biostratigraphy and paleoclimatology of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Siberia) / Gudrun Daxner-Höck, Madelaine Böhme, and Annette Kossler -- Late Miocene mammal localities of eastern Europe and western Asia : toward biostratigraphic synthesis / Eleonora Vangengeim and Alexey S. Tesakov -- Late Miocene (Turolian) vertebrate faunas from southern European Russia / Vadim V. Titov and Alexey S. Tesakov -- Recent advances in paleobiological research of the late Miocene Maragheh fauna, northwest Iran / Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi, Raymond L. Bernor, Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Dominik Wolf, Zahra Orak, Gholamreza Zare, Hideo Nakaya, Mahito Watabe, and Mikael Fortelius -- A review of the Neogene succession of the Muridae and Dipodidae from Anatolia with special reference to taxa known from Asia and/or Europe / Hans de Bruijn, Engin Ünay, and Kees Hordijk -- Late Miocene fossils from the Baynunah Formation, United Arab Emirates : summary of a decade of new work / Faysal Bibi, Andrew Hill, Mark Beech, and Walid Yasin -- Neogene mammal biostratigraphy and chronology of Greece / George D. Koufos -- Continental-scale patterns in Neogene mammal community evolution and biogeography : a Europe-Asia perspective / Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi, Liping Liu, Jussi T. Eronen, Raymond L. Bernor, and Mikael Fortelius -- Intercontinental dispersals of sicistine rodents (Sicistinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) between Eurasia and North America / Yuri Kimura -- Paleodietary comparisons of ungulates between the late Miocene of China and Pikermi and Samos in Greece / Nikos Solounias, Gina Semprebon, Matthew Mihlbachler, and Florent Rivals
Summary "This book is on the emergence of mammals in Asia, based largely on new fossil finds throughout Asia and cutting-edge biostratigraphic and geochemical methods of dating the fossils and their geological substrate"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Mammals, Fossil -- Asia
Paleontology -- Neogene.
Paleontology -- Asia
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Neogene.
Geology -- Asia
NATURE -- Fossils.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- General.
Geology
Geology, Stratigraphic
Mammals, Fossil
Neogene Geologic Period
Paleontology
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Wang, Xiaoming, 1957-
Flynn, Lawrence J. (Lawrence John), 1932-
Fortelius, Mikael
ISBN 9780231520829
0231520824