A Sino-France research team reported preliminary dating results of seven herbivorous fossil teeth from different archaeological layers of the lowest geological unit (C III) of Longgupo Cave site, Wushan County, Ch...
The earliest fossil remains referred to Lagomorpha come from China (Nei Mongol), India (Gujarat), Kyrgyzstan (Batken), and Mongolia (?mn?govi). The fossil record from China is most abundant and complete. There a...
Ochotonids (commonly called pikas) are a group of small-sized lagomorphs, placed in the family Ochotonidae, and are most diversified in Asia, with only two species in North America and one in Europe. Though numero...
Coryphodontids, are a group of extinct large herbivorous mammals widespread in Eurasia and North America from late Paleocene to middle Eocene, placed in the archaic, extinct order Pantodonta, and are among the mos...
Most known Eocene cricetids are from East and Central Asia, especially China and Kazakstan. The genus Pappocricetodon is considered to be the most primitive cricetid. However, the origin of Cricetidae and the rela...
Paleontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently collected some early Paleogene (Upper Paleocene through Middle Eocene) mesonychid specimens fr...
Eggysodontines are a group of medium-sized rhinocerotoids, including the European Eggysodon and the Asian Allacerops, previously found only in Oligocene deposits from Europe and Asia. Scientists from Institute of ...
During the 2005 field season, Paleontologists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Paleontological Institute of Shenyang Normal University, colle...
Scientists from Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences found and described fossil nemacheilids from the Pliocene Lower Member of Qiangtang Formation in the Kunlun P...
More than ten thousands of bone fragments were recovered from the Lingjing site, Henan Province during 2005 and 2006. By taking statistical analyses of the skeletal elements of the two predominant species in this ...