The fossil record of cheetahs in eastern Asia is notably scarce and predominantly
fragmented, leaving the evolution of this lineage in eastern Asia largely enigmatic. In this …

Recently, rich fossiliferous deposits dated to the late Cenozoic have been discovered from
Jinyuan Cave at Luotuo Hill, an extremely large-sized cave site situated within in the Dalian …

The giant short-faced hyena, Pachycrocuta brevirostris, was the largest and most
spectacular bone-cracking hyena that ever existed. Although already extinct long ago, it was …

Abstract The Linxia Basin has produced some of the most complete and fossiliferous fossil
assemblages among the known late Cenozoic basins including diverse carnivoran …

Abstract Pollen evidence from a 25.3-m-long section (~ 2.2–0.41 Ma) in the Jinyuan Cave,
Liaodong Peninsula, indicates that from the Early–Middle Pleistocene, the climate showed a …

Abstract The tribe Lyncodontini (Mammalia, Carnivora, Mustelidae) was widely distributed in
Eurasia during the Plio-Pleistocene. In East Asia, only Eirictis and Oriensictis are known so …

Chronological sequences of Quaternary terrestrial mammalian faunas can provide important
information about the evolutionary history of mammals, regional biostratigraphy and …

In the Shanshenmiaozui (SSMZ) fauna from Nihewan Basin, Canis chihliensis, Nyctereutes
sp., Homotherium sp., Acinonyx sp., Lynx shansius and Pachycrocuta licenti have been …

Abstract The first Episiphneus (Myospalacinae, Rodentia, Mammalia) fossils of the Late
Pliocene from Northeast China are described here as E. dalianensis sp. nov., which were …

A fragment of a bear skull with partially preserved dentition is descibed from the Lower
Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave (Crimea). The presence of P1–P3, the structure of …