A Miocene ostrich fossil from Gansu Province,northwest China
A Miocene ostrich fossil from Gansu Province,northwest China作者机构：Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100044 China Peking Union Medical College Beijing 100730 China
出 版 物：《Chinese Science Bulletin》 (中国科学通报)
年 卷 期：2005年第50卷第16期
页 面：1808-1810页
核心收录：
学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学]
基 金：This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.4023203,40121202,and 40472018) the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.kzcx3-SW-142)
摘 要：A pelvic skeleton, recognized as a large terrestrial bird in the field, wasrecently collected by our paleomamrnalo-gist colleagues from the Institute of VertebratePaleontology and Paleoanthropology from the late Miocene sandy mudstones in the Linxia Basin inGansu Province, northwest China. We have further referred this bird to as an early representative ofostrich. Ostrich fossils usually coexisted with the famous Hipparion Fauna from the Miocene toPliocene. The Linxia Basin is well known for producing a continuous and complete sequence ofCenozoic sediments ranging from the Oligocene to Holocene, with abundant mammals and a few *** fossil ostrich was believed to be living in an open grassland or wetland.
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