caa a22 4500 445300752 CHVBK 20180317142556.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11430-010-4010-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11430-010-4010-3 First discovery of fossil Nesolagus (Leporidae, Lagomorpha) from Southeast Asia [Elektronische Daten] [ChangZhu Jin, Yukimitsu Tomida, Yuan Wang, YingQi Zhang] A new leporid species, Nesolagus sinensis sp. nov., is described here representing the only leporid member of the Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China and also the first fossil taxon of the Southeast Asian genus Nesolagus. Compared with two extant Nesolagus species from Indonesia and Vietnam and other related leprids, the new species has a relatively small size and an extraordinarily weak anterior internal reentrant (AIR) on p3, but it also retains the simplified paedomorphic pattern during the ontogenetic process as in extant species, which suggests that the new species is more primitive than and probably directly ancestral to extant Nesolagus species. The new species seems closely related to Alilepus longisinuosus from the Late Miocene strata of Lufeng, Yunnan, and probably diverged from a leporid similar to its ancestral form. It also indicates that Nesolagus originated in Southwest China. Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 Guangxi of China nationallicence Early Pleistocene nationallicence Nesolagus sinensis sp. nov nationallicence Gigantopithecus fauna nationallicence Jin ChangZhu Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044, Beijing, China aut Tomida Yukimitsu National Museum of Nature and Science, 3-23-1 Hyakunincho, 169-0073, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan aut Wang Yuan Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044, Beijing, China aut Zhang YingQi Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044, Beijing, China aut Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/8(2010-08-01), 1134-1140 1674-7313 53:8<1134 2010 53 11430 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4010-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4010-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jin ChangZhu Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tomida Yukimitsu National Museum of Nature and Science, 3-23-1 Hyakunincho, 169-0073, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Yuan Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang YingQi Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100044, Beijing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/8(2010-08-01), 1134-1140 1674-7313 53:8<1134 2010 53 11430 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer