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| New distylomyid rodents (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the early Miocene Suosuoquan Formation of northern Xinjiang, China. (American Museum novitates, no. 3663) |
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| Title: | New distylomyid rodents (Mammalia, Rodentia) from the early Miocene Suosuoquan Formation of northern Xinjiang, China. (American Museum novitates, no. 3663) |
| Other Titles: | Miocene distylomyid rodents from Xinjiang. |
| Authors: | Bi, Shundong. Meng, Jin. Wu, Wenyu. Ye, Jie. Ni, Xijun. |
| Keywords: | Distylomys burqinensis. Prodistylomys wangae. Prodistylomys lii. Rodents, Fossil. Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu. China. Miocene. |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publisher: | New York, NY : American Museum of Natural History. |
| Series/Report no.: | American Museum novitates, no. 3663. |
| Abstract: | Three new distylomyid species, Distylomys burqinensis, Prodistylomys wangae, and P. lii, are described from the Suosuoquan Formation, early Miocene, of Xinjiang Province, northwestern China. Previously unknown cranial materials and upper dentitions add new information for the higher-level taxonomy of distylomyid rodents. Based on these new discoveries, the family Distylomyidae is resurrected. These fossils demonstrate that distylomyids have a combination of primitive "ctenodactylid" characters and derived hystricognathous ones, possibly indicating a close affinity with South American caviomorph rodents and thereby offering new evidence to challenge the hypothesis that the traditional "Ctenodactyloidea" are monophyletic. Prodistylomys lii was recovered from Suosuoquan mammal assemblage III (magnetostratigraphically dated as 21.69-21.16 Mya) at the Chibaerwoyi locality. Distylomys burqinensis and Prodistylomys wangae were collected from a new fossiliferous locality, Locality XJ200601 of ... |
| Description: | 18 p. : ill., 1 map ; 26 cm. "August 28, 2009." Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-18). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5986 |
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