Notes on Asian stegodontids
Abstract
Stegodontids, elephant-like proboscideans, flourished in the Neogene and Quaternary of Asia. The most significant recent finding in the study of stegodontids is the new stegodons and stegolophodons fossils from Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand and Yuanmou Basin, Yunnan. Those specimens show a transition from stegolophodons to stegodons and support the idea that stegodons originated in Asia.
Evolution of island forms from the mainland ancestral one is best documented in the Japanese islands. The following succession is present in Japan: S. zdanskyi, S. miensis, an intermediate form between S. miensis and S. aurorae, S. aurorae, and S. orientalis. The former three taxa represent a single lineage. The succession from S. zdanskyi to S. miensis may have been present also in the coastal area of China.
- Publication:
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Quaternary International
- Pub Date:
- 2005
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- Bibcode:
- 2005QuInt.126...31S
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- BMNH;
- Natural History Museum;
- London;
- BSM;
- Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie;
- München;
- CCV;
- Private Collection of Dr. Chavalit Vidthayanon;
- Bangkok;
- IGPS;
- Institute of Geology and Palaeontology;
- Tohoku University;
- Sendai;
- IM;
- Indian Museum;
- Calcutta;
- INM;
- Ibaraki Nature Museum;
- Iwai;
- IVPP;
- Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology;
- Beijing;
- MPM;
- Mie Prefectural Museum;
- Tsu;
- Japan;
- NSM;
- National Science Museum;
- Tokyo;
- PMU;
- Palaeontological Museum;
- Uppsala;
- PRY;
- Private Collection of Mr. Piriya Vachajitpan;
- Bangkok;
- RIN;
- Rajabhat Institute Nakhon Ratchasima;
- Nakhon Ratchasima;
- SSG;
- Department of Geology;
- Shinshu University;
- Matsumoto;
- SSME;
- Sendai Science Museum;
- Sendai;
- THP;
- Natural History Museum;
- Tianjin (Museum of Huangho and Paiho);
- YV and YM;
- Yunnan Provincial Museum;
- Kunming