A macroevolutionary pathway to megaherbivory

O Sanisidro, MC Mihlbachler, JL Cantalapiedra - Science, 2023 - science.org
Several scenarios have been proposed to explain rapid net size increases in some early
Cenozoic mammalian lineages: sustained and gradual directional change, successive …

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 …

Biostratigraphy and diversity of Paleogene perissodactyls from the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China

B Bai, YQ Wang, Q Li, HB Wang, FY Mao… - American Museum …, 2018 - BioOne
Extant perissodactyls (horses, rhinos, and tapirs) comprise a small portion of living
mammals, but fossil perissodactyls were more diverse and commonly dominated Paleogene …

The origin of Rhinocerotoidea and phylogeny of Ceratomorpha (Mammalia, Perissodactyla)

B Bai, J Meng, C Zhang, YX Gong, YQ Wang - Communications Biology, 2020 - nature.com
Rhinoceroses have been considered to have originated from tapiroids in the middle Eocene;
however, the transition remains controversial, and the first unequivocal rhinocerotoids …

[HTML][HTML] New data on Amynodontidae (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) from Eastern Europe: Phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic implications around the Eocene …

J Tissier, D Becker, V Codrea, L Costeur, C Fărcaş… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Amynodontidae is a family of Rhinocerotoidea (Mammalia, Perissodactyla) known from the
late Early Eocene to the latest Oligocene, in North America and Eurasia. European …

Eocene Pachynolophinae (Perissodactyla, Palaeotheriidae) from China, and their palaeobiogeographical implications

B Bai - Palaeontology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Eocene perissodactyl family Palaeotheriidae has traditionally been considered
to be a nearly endemic European group within Equoidea, but a few palaeotheres have been …

First report of the genus Eggysodon from Asia

X Lu, T Deng, B Sun, Y Hou, R Paul, D Sun… - Historical Biology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We described a new pair of incomplete mandibles from the Qingshuiying locality, Northwest
China, and referred it to Eggysodon, E. lingwuensis sp. nov. The new species has a typical …

Perissodactyl diversities and responses to climate changes as reflected by dental homogeneity during the Cenozoic in Asia

B Bai, J Meng, CM Janis, ZQ Zhang… - Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cenozoic mammal evolution and faunal turnover are considered to have been influenced
and triggered by global climate change. Teeth of large terrestrial ungulates are reliable …

Additional cricetid and dipodid rodent material from the Erden Obo section, Erlian Basin (Nei Mongol, China) and its biochronological implications

Q Li - Palaeoworld, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract New cricetid (Cricetops dormitor, Eocricetodon sp., Eucricetodon cf. E. wangae,
Pappocricetodon schaubi) and dipodid (Allosminthus gobiensis n. sp., Allosminthus ernos …

[HTML][HTML] A new species of Forstercooperia (Perissodactyla: Paraceratheriidae) from Northern China with a systematic revision of Forstercooperiines

HB Wang, B Bai, J Meng, YQ Wang - American Museum Novitates, 2018 - BioOne
Forstercooperiines are a group of large, primitive rhinocerotoids that are commonly
regarded as ancestral to later giant rhinos. However, the type genus of forstercooperiines …