CONTENTS
Introduction
Toward a Continental Asian Biostratigraphic
and Geochronologic Framework
Xiaoming Wang, Lawrence J. Flynn,
and Mikael Fortelius 1
PART I. EAST ASIA
Chapter 1
Neogene Land Mammal Stages/Ages of China:
Toward the Goal to Establish an Asian Land
Mammal Stage/Age Scheme
Zhan- xiang Qiu, Zhu- ding Qiu, Tao Deng,
Chuan- kui Li, Zhao- qun Zhang, Ban- yue Wang,
and Xiaoming Wang 29
Chapter 2
North China Neogene Biochronology:
A Chinese Standard
Michael O. Woodburne, Richard H. Tedford,
and Everett H. Lindsay 91
Chapter 3
A Single-Point Base Defi nition of the Xiejian Age
as an Exemplar for Refi ning Chinese Land
Mammal Ages
Jin Meng, Jie Ye, Wen- yu Wu, Xi- jun Ni, and
Shun- dong Bi 124
Chapter 4
Early Miocene Xiejiahe and Sihong Fossil Localities
and Th eir Faunas, Eastern China
Zhu- ding Qiu and Zhan- xiang Qiu 142
Chapter 5
Neogene Faunal Succession and Biochronology
of Central Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia)
Zhu- ding Qiu, Xiaoming Wang, and Qiang Li 155
Chapter 6
Mammalian Biochronology of the Late Miocene
Bahe Formation
Zhao- qun Zhang, Anu Kaakinen, Li- ping Liu, Juha Pekka
Lunkka, Sevket Sen, Wulf A. Gose, Zhu- ding Qiu,
Shao- hua Zheng, and Mikael Fortelius 187
Chapter 7
Stratigraphy and Paleoecol ogy of the Classical Dragon
Bone Localities of Baode County, Shanxi Province
Anu Kaakinen, Benjamin H. Passey, Zhao- qun Zhang,
Li- ping Liu, Lauri J. Pesonen, and Mikael Fortelius 203
Chapter 8
Review of the Litho-, Bio-, and Chronostratigraphy
in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei, China
Bao- quan Cai, Shao- hua Zheng, Joseph C. Liddicoat,
and Qiang Li 218
Chapter 9
Late Cenozoic Biostratigraphy of the Linxia Basin,
Northwestern China
Tao Deng, Zhan- xiang Qiu, Ban- yue Wang, Xiaoming
Wang, and Su- kuan Hou 243
Chapter 10
Neogene Mammalian Biostratigraphy and
Geochronology of the Tibetan Plateau
Xiaoming Wang, Qiang Li, Zhu- ding Qiu, Guang- pu Xie,
Ban- yue Wang, Zhan- xiang Qiu, Zhijie J. Tseng,
Gary T. Takeuchi, and Tao Deng 274
Chapter 11
Hominoid- Producing Localities and Biostratigraphy
in Yunnan
Wei Dong and Guo- qin Qi 293
Chapter 12
Miocene Land Mammals and Stratigraphy of Japan
Yukimitsu Tomida, Hideo Nakaya, Haruo Saegusa,
Kazunori Miyata, and Akira Fukuchi 314
Chapter 13
Pliocene Land Mammals of Japan
Ryohei Nakagawa, Yoshinari Kawamura,
and Hiroyuki Taruno 334
PART II. SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
Chapter 14
Th e Siwaliks and Neogene Evolutionary Biology
in South Asia
Lawrence J. Flynn, Everett H. Lindsay, David Pilbeam,
S. Mahmood Raza, Michèle E. Morgan, John C. Barry,
Catherine E. Badgley, Anna K. Behrensmeyer,
I. U. Cheema, Abdul Rahim Rajpar,
and Neil D. Opdyke 353
Chapter 15
Th e Neogene Siwaliks of the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan
John C. Barry, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, Catherine E. Badgley,
Lawrence J. Flynn, Hannele Peltonen, I. U. Cheema,
David Pilbeam, Everett H. Lindsay, S. Mahmood Raza,
Abdul Rahim Rajpar, and Michèle E. Morgan 373
Chapter 16
Mammalian Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Sulaiman
Province, Pakistan
Pierre- Olivier Antoine, Gregoire Métais, Maeva J. Orliac,
J.- Y. Crochet, Lawrence J. Flynn, Laurent Marivaux,
Abdul Rahim Rajpar, G. Roohi, and Jean- Loup
Welcomme 400
Chapter 17
Indian Neogene Siwalik Mammalian Biostratigraphy:
An Overview
Rajeev Patnaik 423
Chapter 18
Paleobiogeography and South Asian Small Mammals:
Neogene Latitudinal Faunal Variation
Lawrence J. Flynn and Wilma Wessels 445
Chapter 19
Advances in the Biochronology and Biostratigraphy
of the Continental Neogene of Myanmar
Olivier Chavasseau, Aung Aung Khyaw, Yaowalak
Chaimanee, Pauline Coster, Edouard- Georges
Emonet, Aung Naing Soe, Mana Rugbumrung, Soe
Th ura Tun, and Jean- Jacques Jaeger 461
PART III. NORTH AND CENTRAL ASIA
Chapter 20
Miocene Mammal Biostratigraphy of Central Mongolia
(Valley of Lakes): New Results
Gudrun Daxner- Höck, Demchig Badamgarav, Margarita
Erbajeva, and Ursula Bettina Göhlich 477
Chapter 21
Late Cenozoic Mammal Faunas of the Baikalian Region:
Composition, Biochronology, Dispersal, and
Correlation with Central Asia
Margarita Erbajeva and Nadezhda Alexeeva 495
Chapter 22
New Data on Miocene Biostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology
of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Siberia)
Gudrun Daxner- Höck, Madelaine Böhme,
and Annette Kossler 508
PART IV. WEST ASIA AND ADJACENT REGIONS
Chapter 23
Late Miocene Mammal Localities of Eastern Eu rope and
Western Asia: Toward Biostratigraphic Synthesis
Eleonora Vangengeim and Alexey S. Tesakov 521
Chapter 24
Late Miocene (Turolian) Vertebrate Faunas from
Southern Eu ro pe an Rus sia
Vadim V. Titov and Alexey S. Tesakov 538
Chapter 25
Recent Advances in Paleobiological Research of the Late
Miocene Maragheh Fauna, Northwest Iran
Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi, Raymond L. Bernor,
Dimitris S. Kostopoulos, Dominik Wolf, Zahra Orak,
Gholamreza Zare, Hideo Nakaya, Mahito Watabe, and
Mikael Fortelius 546
Chapter 26
A Review of the Neogene Succession of the Muridae
and Dipodidae from Anatolia, with Special Reference
to Taxa Known from Asia and/or Eu rope
Hans de Bruijn, Engin Ünay, and Kees Hordijk 566
Chapter 27
Late Miocene Fossils from the Baynunah Formation,
United Arab Emirates: Summary of a De cade
of New Work
Faysal Bibi, Andrew Hill, Mark Beech,
and Walid Yasin 583
Chapter 28
Neogene Mammal Biostratigraphy and Chronology
of Greece
George D. Koufos 595
PART V. ZOOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOECOL OGY
Chapter 29
Continental- Scale Patterns in Neogene Mammal
Community Evolution and Biogeography:
A Europe- Asia Perspective
Majid Mirzaie Ataabadi, Li-ping Liu, Jussi T. Eronen,
Raymond L. Bernor, and Mikael Fortelius 629
Chapter 30
Intercontinental Dispersals of Sicistine Rodents
(Sicistinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) Between Eurasia
and North America
Yuri Kimura 656
Chapter 31
Paleodietary Comparisons of Ungulates Between
the Late Miocene of China, and Pikermi and Samos
in Greece
Nikos Solounias, Gina M. Semprebon, Matthew C.
Mihlbachler, and Florent Rivals 676
List of Contributors 693
Taxonomic Index 701
General Index 723
