Université de Fribourg

A new species of Argyromys (Rodentia, Mammalia) from the oligocene of the valley of lakes (Mongolia): its importance for palaeobiogeographical homogeneity across Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan

López-Guerrero, Paloma ; Maridet, Olivier ; Zhang, Zhaoqun ; Daxner-Höck, Gudrun

In: PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, no. 3, p. e0172733

We describe a new species of Rodentia (Mammalia), Argyromys cicigei sp. nov. from Toglorhoi (fossil bed TGW-A/2a) in Mongolia and Ulantatal (fossil beds UTL 1 and UTL 7) in China. Its tooth morphology differs from the type species Argyromys aralensis from Akespe in Kazakhstan by smaller size and simpler structures. Argyromys has been assigned in different families of Muroidea, such as...

Bibliothèque cantonale jurassienne

An oasis in the desert ? : history of endemism and climate in the Late Neogene of North China

Fortelius, Mikael ; Zhang, Zhaoqun

In: Palaeontographica : Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Vorzeit. Abt. A, Palaeozoologie, Stratigraphie, 2006, vol. 277, no. 1-6, p. 131