古脊椎动物学报2021，Vol.59Issue(4)：273-294,22.DOI:10.19615/j.cnki.2096-9899.210715
山西天镇辛窑子早更新世犀科化石新材料
The first description of Rhinocerotidae(Perissodactyla,Mammalia)from Xinyaozi Ravine in Shanxi,North China
摘要
Abstract
Abundant mammalian fossils were uncovered during the field exploration for Nihewan beds at the beginning of the 1980s along Xinyaozi Ravine at Nangaoya Township of Tianzhen County,Shanxi Province in North China and the studied taxa indicate an age of the early Early Pleistocene.Recent studies on the rhino material not yet described show that there are at least two species of rhinocerotids:Elasmotherium peii and Coelodonta nihowanensis.There might be a third taxon provisionally named as Stephanorhinus cf.S.kirchbergensis due to incompleteness of the specimens.Since its morphometric characters are between S.kirchbergensis and C.nihowanensis,it might be a variety of one of the two species although it is more similar to the former than the latter.In the same way,The rhino specimens from Xiashagou named as Rhinoceros sinensis(?)by Teilhard de Chardin and Piveteau(1930)might be a variety of S.kirchbergensis or C.nihowanensis.The rhinocerotids uncovered so far from the Early Pleistocene deposits in the generalized Nihewan Basin including two certain species and two uncertain ones.The localities yielding E.peii include Xiashagou,Shanshenmiaozhui,Daheigou and Xinyaozi;those yielding C.nihowanensis include Xiashagou,Danangou,Donggutuo,Shanshenmiaozhui and Xinyaozi.R.sinensis(?)appeared only at Xiashagou and Stephanorhinus cf.S.kirchbergensis only at Xinyaozi.关键词
辛窑子沟,天镇,泥河湾盆地/早更新世/泥河湾层/犀科Key words
Xinyaozi Ravine,Tianzhen,Nihewan Basin/Early Pleistocene/Nihewan beds/Rhinocerotidae分类
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董为,白炜鹏,张立民..山西天镇辛窑子早更新世犀科化石新材料[J].古脊椎动物学报,2021,59(4):273-294,22.基金项目
中国科学院战略性先导科技专项(B类)(编号:XDB26030304)资助.The present work was supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Grant No.XDB 26030304.The authors would like to acknowledge Professor Wei Qi for providing the material of the present study,Professors Deng Tao and Tong Haowen for helpful comments and suggestions to improve the manuscript. （B类）
