Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep

doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190

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	Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep
	Wang, Xiaoming 1,2,3; Li, Qiang 3,4; Takeuchi, Gary T.5
刊名	JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY
	2016-09-01
卷号	36 期号:5
DOI	10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Modern wild sheep, Ovis, is widespread in the mountain ranges of the Caucasus through Himalaya, Tibetan Plateau, Tianshan-Altai, eastern Siberia, and the Rocky Mountains in North America. In Eurasia, fossil sheep are known at a few Pleistocene sites in North China, eastern Siberia, and western Europe, but are so far absent from the Tibetan Plateau. We describe an extinct sheep, Protovis himalayensis, gen. et sp. nov., from the Pliocene of the Zanda Basin in western Himalaya. Smaller than the living argali, this new form shares with Ovis posterolaterally arched horncores and partially developed sinuses and possesses several transitional characters leading to Ovis. Protovis likely subsisted on C-3 plants, which are the dominant vegetation in the Zanda area during the Pliocene. With the discovery of this new genus and species, we extend the fossil record for the sheep clade into the Pliocene of the Tibetan Plateau, consistent with our previous out-of-Tibet hypothesis. Ancestral sheep in the Pliocene were presumed adapted to high altitude and cold environments, and during the Ice Age, sheep became anatomically modern and dispersed outside of the Tibetan Plateau. Both this new fossil datum and the existing molecular phylogeny suggest that the Tibetan Plateau, possibly including Tianshan-Altai, represents the ancestral home range(s) of mountain sheep and that these basal stocks were the ultimate source of all extant species. Most sheep species survived along their Pleistocene route of dispersal, offering a highly consistent pattern of zoogeography.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F2AEE746-0A5B-4F40-89B7-8EF0C04F21FDSUPPLEMENTAL DATASupplemental materials are available for this article for free at www.tandfonline.com/UJVPCitation for this article: Wang, X., Q. Li, and G. T. Takeuchi. 2016. Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, gen. et sp. nov. (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1169190.
WOS关键词	OVIS-AMMON-ANTIQUA ; QAIDAM BASIN ; ZANDA BASIN ; MAMMALIA ; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY ; PLEISTOCENE ; EVOLUTION ; PLATEAU ; ARTIODACTYLA ; FRANCE
WOS研究方向	Paleontology
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000384029300004
资助机构	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Science(XDB03020104) ; Major Basic Research Projects of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (973 Program)(2012CB21904) ; CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams ; Chinese National Natural Science Foundation(41430102 ; Chinese Academy of Science Outstanding Overseas Scholar Fund(KL205208) ; National Science Foundation (U.S.A.)(EAR-0446699 ; National Geographic Society(6004-97 ; 40702004 ; 0716507 ; 6771-00 ; 41472002) ; 0958704 ; W22-08) ; 1227212)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/7032]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
作者单位	1.Nat Hist Museum Los Angeles Cty, Dept Vertebrate Paleontol, 900 Exposit Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA 2.Nanjing Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Tibetan Plateau Earth Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 5.La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Dept Rancho La Brea, 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaoming,Li, Qiang,Takeuchi, Gary T.. Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep[J]. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,2016,36(5).
APA	Wang, Xiaoming,Li, Qiang,&Takeuchi, Gary T..(2016).Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep.JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY,36(5).
MLA	Wang, Xiaoming,et al."Out of Tibet: an early sheep from the Pliocene of Tibet, Protovis himalayensis, genus and species nov (Bovidae, Caprini), and origin of Ice Age mountain sheep".JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 36.5(2016).