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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• JIN, CHANG ZHU
• KAWAMURA, YOSHINARI

Titel

1014 A new genus of shrew from the Pliocene of Yinan, Shandong Province, northern China

Ist Teil von

• Transactions and proceedings of the Paleontological Society of Japan. New series, 1996/06/30, Vol.1996(182), pp.478-483

Ort / Verlag

PALAEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A large shrew mandible with pigmented teeth obtained from the Pliocene cave sediments of Yinan is referred to a new species of a new genus in the subfamily Soricinae, which is named Lunanosorex Iii. This species belongs to the tribe Beremendiini of the subfamily. Comparisons with large shrews with pigmented teeth such as Beremendia, Blarinoides and Shikamainosorex indicate that Lunanosorex is clearly distinct from all the shrews. In north China, Lunanosorex appeared probably in the middle Pliocene as an indigenous genus, and seems to have been coexistent with Beremendia until it became extinct around the end of the Pliocene.