Abstract
The few Dipodoidea recorded as fossils in the Late Neogene deposits of Yushe Basin are isolated teeth recovered by screening in 1987 and 1988. They include small zapodids, and remains of a larger dipodid. The fossils recorded at YS8 in the late Miocene Mahui Formation are referable to Lophocricetus and to the extant genus Sicista. Both also co-occur in late Miocene and early Pliocene localities of central Inner Mongolia , Balunhalagen, Shala, Baogeda Ula, Ertemte, Harr Obo, and Bilike. The Yushe specimens are most comparable to those of Shala and Baogeda Ula, demonstrating somewhat primitive characters for those populations. The dipodid, from younger Yushe formations, is referred to Dipus cf. D. fraudator and shows a slightly more derived state than the specimens of D. fraudator known from Ertemte. The Yushe Pliocene Dipus records postdate Ertemte, and an early Pleistocene Dipus from the Haiyan Formation is small in size, suggesting phyletic change in the lineage.
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Qiu, ZD. (2017). Yushe Dipodoidea. In: J. Flynn, L., Wu, WY. (eds) Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1050-1_7
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