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And one without the typo...
October 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Do we know the locality and horizon of the Helsinki specimen?
August 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
formally→formerly*
my bad English kill me
August 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is the official publication, and it is still in press(pre-proof). But I'm very honoured to be a part of this paper and contribute my modest efforts.
All these living things above are photographed by me.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The first cranium of Postschizotherium (Pliohyracidae, Hyracoidea) from the Lower Pleistocene of China
Pliohyracidae, a group of large-bodied hyracoids, successfully colonised Eurasia during the late Cenozoic. However, their cranial morphology has remai…
www.sciencedirect.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
And there are a large number of animals from different ecological niche coexisted here in the Longdan locality during the Early Pleistocene. Eventually, the most of the fauna disappeared with violent climate change event.
Here's a chart of the Landscape reconstruction. 6/
August 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Combining all known informations and previous work achievements, we can see the palaeoenvironmental at the northwestern corner of the Tibetan Plateau during the Early Pleistocene is more likely a moist, mosaic of environments (including massifs, grasslands, woodlands). 5/
August 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Although there are still more evidence is needed for verification and support, we believed that Postschizotherium is a semi-aquatic (or hydrophilic, at least) clade of Hyracoidea. This is very different from their living relatives, which is better at climbing on land. 4/
August 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
which is the first nearly complete cranium of this genus. The cranium has cylindrical orbits, protruding strongly laterally, with an elevation that surpasses the frontal surfaces. Protrude eyes are very common in semi-aquatic animals, such as the Hippopotamus 3/
August 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Recently, a newly discovered pliohyracid cranium (which been refered to Postschizotherium cf. intermedium) indicated something more about this enigmatic clade of Giant Hyrax. The Cranium was found from Longdan locality, Gansu, China. 2/
August 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM