[HTML][HTML] Formation and evolution of the Asian landscape during the Cenozoic

H Lu, H Feng, H Lyu, H Wang, X Zhang… - The Innovation …, 2023 - the-innovation.org
Asia has a unique set of landscapes, notably characterized by the highest plateau in the
world, the strongest monsoon circulation, and an immense arid region. When and how this …

Paleogene integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

Y Wang, Q Li, B Bai, X Jin, F Mao, J Meng - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
The Paleogene is the first period after the Mesozoic Mass Extinction. Mammals become the
dominant group in the terrestrial ecosystem with a rapid radiation, and Asia has been …

The placental mammal ancestor and the post–K-Pg radiation of placentals

MA O'Leary, JI Bloch, JJ Flynn, TJ Gaudin… - science, 2013 - science.org
To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

The oldest known primate skeleton and early haplorhine evolution

X Ni, DL Gebo, M Dagosto, J Meng, P Tafforeau… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Reconstructing the earliest phases of primate evolution has been impeded by gaps in the
fossil record, so that disagreements persist regarding the palaeobiology and phylogenetic …

The Diversity and Distribution of Palaeogene Snakes

KT Smith, GL Georgalis - … origin and early evolutionary history of …, 2022 - books.google.com
The first clear fossil indications of modern clades of snakes are in the Palaeogene. Many
major groups, including 'scolecophidians'(blindsnakes), probably originated earlier, and …

Astronomical forcing of the hydrological cycle in the Weihe Basin (North China) during the middle to late Eocene

R Zhang, C Huang, DB Kemp, Z Wang, Z Zhang… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The middle to late Eocene marked a key transition from greenhouse to coolhouse. However,
a lack of high-resolution and temporally well-constrained continental records hinders our …

Tectonic and climatic impacts on environmental evolution in East Asia during the Palaeogene

H Jiang, J Zhang, S Zhang, N Zhong… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Palaeogene environmental evolution in East Asia remains ambiguous. Here we present
integrative work including magnetostratigraphy, grain‐size, geochemistry, and clay …

Earliest known unequivocal rhinocerotoid sheds new light on the origin of Giant Rhinos and phylogeny of early rhinocerotoids

H Wang, B Bai, J Meng, Y Wang - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Forstercooperiines are a group of primitive rhinocerotoids with a relatively large body size in
the Eocene, and normally considered to be closely related to Giant Rhinos. Here we report a …

New fossils, systematics, and biogeography of the oldest known crown primate Teilhardina from the earliest Eocene of Asia, Europe, and North America

PE Morse, SGB Chester, DM Boyer, T Smith… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - Elsevier
Omomyiform primates are among the most basal fossil haplorhines, with the oldest classified
in the genus Teilhardina and known contemporaneously from Asia, Europe, and North …

Lagomorpha as a model morphological system

B Kraatz, R Belabbas, Ł Fostowicz-Frelik… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Due to their global distribution, invasive history, and unique characteristics, European
rabbits are recognizable almost anywhere on our planet. Although they are members of a …