scholarly journals Small mammal fauna of Early Pleistocene age from the Xiaochangliang site in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei, northern China

2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingqi Zhang ◽  
Yoshinari Kawamura ◽  
Baoquan Cai
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Nihewan Basin ◽  
Mammal Fauna

scholarly journals MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE SMALL MAMMAL fAUNAS Of EUROPE: EVOLUTION, BIOSTRATIGRAPHY, CORRELATIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. Markova ◽  
A. Yu. Puzachenko
Keyword(s):  
Small Mammal ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
Mammal Evolution ◽  
Phylogenetic Lineages ◽  
Mammal Faunas

The paper is concerned with the small mammal fauna evolution in Europe in the Middle Pleistocene. The information on the faunas of the end of the Early Pleistocene has been also taken into consideration. The data available made possible identifying several stages in the small mammal evolution. Not all intervals within the Middle Pleistocene are provided with sufficient information for recognizing individual stages; that is particularly true for the cold periods of the Middle Pleistocene – the Donian and the Okian glaciations (=Elsterian, =Anglian). Based on the studies of small mammal localities, the biostratigraphic scheme has been developed, the principal phylogenetic lineages of Arvicolinae were traced, and maps of the Middle Pleistocene small mammal localities have been compiled

Magnetostratigraphic dating of the Donggutuo and Maliang Paleolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, North China

2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongqiang Wang ◽  
Chenglong Deng ◽  
Rixiang Zhu ◽  
Qi Wei ◽  
Yamei Hou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Central China ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Paleomagnetic Data ◽  
Magnetic Studies ◽  
North Central ◽  
Nihewan Basin

AbstractA detailed magnetostratigraphic investigation, coupled with rock-magnetic studies, was carried out on a lacustrine sequence in the eastern Nihewan Basin, Northern China, which contains the Donggutuo and Maliang Paleolithic sites. Magnetite and hematite were identified as the main carriers for the characteristic remanent magnetizations. Magnetostratigraphic results show that the lacustrine sequence recorded the late Matuyama and Brunhes chrons. Furthermore, the Maliang artifact layer occurs just below the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary, and the Donggutuo artifact layer is just below the Jaramillo onset. Therefore, the age of the Maliang and Donggutuo artifact layers can be definitely estimated to be about 0.78 myr and 1.1 myr, respectively. These two paleomagnetic ages, coupled with previously obtained paleomagnetic data of the Majuangou, Xiaochangliang, Banshan, Lantian, and Xihoudu Paleolithic sites, suggest an expansion and lengthy flourishing of human groups from northern to north-central China during the entire Early Pleistocene.

Vegetation succession and climate change during the early pleistocene (2.2-1.8 Ma) in the Nihewan Basin, northern China

2020 ◽  
Vol 537 ◽  
pp. 109375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guoqiang Ding ◽  
Yuecong Li ◽  
Zhen Zhang ◽  
Wensheng Zhang ◽  
Yong Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Vegetation Succession ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Nihewan Basin

Small mammal assemblages from the Quaternary succession at Moriaanshoofd (Zeeland, the Netherlands) and their significance for correlating the Oosterschelde fauna

2014 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 119-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.F. Mayhew ◽  
F.E. Dieleman ◽  
A.A. Slupik ◽  
L.W. van den Hoek Ostende ◽  
J.W.F. Reumer
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Small Mammals ◽  
Small Mammal ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Mammal Fauna ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Mammal Assemblages ◽  
Mammal Faunas

AbstractWe investigated fossil small mammals from a borehole near Moriaanshoofd (Zeeland, southwest Netherlands) in order to get better insights in the fossil mammal faunas that are found in the subsurface in the southwestern Netherlands, and to investigate the age and provenance of the mammal fauna that is being dredged from the deep tidal gullies in the nearby Oosterschelde estuary. The record in the borehole covers Gelasian (Early Pleistocene) to Holocene deposits, represented by six formations. Thirty-nine specimens of small mammals were obtained from the borehole. These fossils derived from the Early Pleistocene marine Maassluis Formation and from directly overlying deposits of a Late Pleistocene age. During Weichselian times (33–24 ka), a proto-Schelde River shaped the northern Oosterschelde area. The river reworked substantial amounts of Early and Middle Pleistocene deposits. At the base of the Schelde-derived fluvial sequence (regionally described as the Koewacht Formation), Gelasian vertebrate faunas were concentrated in the channel lag. The Late Pleistocene channel lag is almost certainly the main source for the rich Early Pleistocene vertebrate faunas with larger mammals dredged from the Oosterschelde.

scholarly journals Stable Isotope Analysis of Mammalian Enamel From the Early Pleistocene Site of Madigou, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Reconstructing Hominin Paleoenvironmental Adaptations in North China

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhe Xu ◽  
Shuwen Pei ◽  
Yaowu Hu ◽  
Ignacio de la Torre ◽  
Dongdong Ma
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
North China ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Lacustrine Sediments ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Isotopic Signatures ◽  
Nihewan Basin

The reconstruction of environmental and climatic changes in the Pleistocene is an essential contribution to our understanding of human evolutionary and behavioral adaptations. Well preserved fluvio-lacustrine sediments at Nihewan basin have yielded a rich record of Early Pleistocene Paleolithic sites and mammalian fossils which provide a unique opportunity for exploring hominin behavior and paleoecology in North China. Taxonomic studies of mammalian fossils have provided important clues to the general environmental setting and landscapes of Early Pleistocene humans in the fluvio-lacustrine basin of Nihewan, but little is known about their isotopic signatures. In this paper, mammal teeth species at the Madigou archaeological site (ca. 1.2 Ma) were selected for bulk and sequential enamel stable isotope (C, O) analysis. Results show a variety of ecological environments, including grassland and sparse forest landscapes, and distinct patterns across taxa. C3-C4 mixed vegetation predominated, but C4 vegetation was also relevant at times. Madigou early humans likely experienced cold/warm or dry/wet fluctuations in this northern China basin. We hypothesize that the environmental fluctuations and diversified landscapes may have driven flexibility in various aspects of early human technological behaviors, and allowed hominins to face the environmental challenges of northern latitudes after the initial expansion from Africa into East Asia at the onset of the Middle Pleistocene Climate Transition.

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