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DOI	10.1126/science.1206594
	Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of ice age megaherbivores
	Deng T.; Wang X.; Fortelius M.; Li Q.; Wang Y.; Tseng Z.J.; Takeuchi G.T.; Saylor J.E.; Säilä L.K.; Xie G.
发表日期	2011
ISSN	0036-8075
起始页码	1285
结束页码	1288
卷号	333 期号:6047
英文摘要	Ice Age megafauna have long been known to be associated with global cooling during the Pleistocene, and their adaptations to cold environments, such as large body size, long hair, and snow-sweeping structures, are best exemplified by the woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos. These traits were assumed to have evolved as a response to the ice sheet expansion. We report a new Pliocene mammal assemblage from a high-altitude basin in the western Himalayas, including a primitive woolly rhino. These new Tibetan fossils suggest that some megaherbivores first evolved in Tibet before the beginning of the Ice Age. The cold winters in high Tibet served as a habituation ground for the megaherbivores, which became preadapted for the Ice Age, successfully expanding to the Eurasian mammoth steppe.
英文关键词	adaptation; body size; fossil record; habituation; hair; herbivore; ice sheet; mammoth; paleontology; Pleistocene; Pliocene; steppe; altitude acclimatization; article; China; Coelodonta antiquitatis; Coelodonta nihowanensis; Coelodonta thibetana; Coelodonta tologoijensis; fauna; fossil; habituation; herbivore; ice age; mammal; mammoth; megafauna; nonhuman; phylogeny; Pliocene; priority journal; winter; Acclimatization; Altitude; Animals; Biological Evolution; Cold Climate; Fossils; Ice Cover; Mammals; Mandible; Perissodactyla; Phylogeny; Seasons; Skull; Tibet; Tooth; Himalayas; Mammalia; Mammuthus primigenius
语种	英语
来源期刊	Science
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/243511
作者单位	Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States; Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States; Integrative and Evolutionary Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States; George C. Page Museum, 5801 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States; Department of Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, United States; Gansu Provincial Museum, Lanzhou 730050, China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Deng T.,Wang X.,Fortelius M.,et al. Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of ice age megaherbivores[J],2011,333(6047).
APA	Deng T..,Wang X..,Fortelius M..,Li Q..,Wang Y..,...&Xie G..(2011).Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of ice age megaherbivores.Science,333(6047).
MLA	Deng T.,et al."Out of Tibet: Pliocene woolly rhino suggests high-plateau origin of ice age megaherbivores".Science 333.6047(2011).