Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats
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| 作者 | Tseng, ZJ ; Wang, XM（王晓鸣） ; Slater, GJ ; Takeuchi, GT ; Li, Q（李强） ; Liu, J ; Xie, GP |
| 刊名 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
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| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 卷号 | 281期号:1774页码:281 |
| 关键词 | first appearance Himalaya Pantherinae Felidae Miocene Asia |
| ISSN号 | 0962-8452 |
| 通讯作者 | Tseng, ZJ (reprint author), Univ So Calif, Dept Biol Sci, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. |
| 英文摘要 | Pantherine felids ('big cats') include the largest living cats, apex predators in their respective ecosystems. They are also the earliest diverging living cat lineage, and thus are important for understanding the evolution of all subsequent felid groups. Although the oldest pantherine fossils occur in Africa, molecular phylogenies point to Asia as their region of origin. This paradox cannot be reconciled using current knowledge, mainly because early big cat fossils are exceedingly rare and fragmentary. Here, we report the discovery of a fossil pantherine from the Tibetan Himalaya, with an age of Late Miocene-Early Pliocene, replacing African records as the oldest pantherine. A 'total evidence' phylogenetic analysis of pantherines indicates that the new cat is closely related to the snow leopard and exhibits intermediate characteristics on the evolutionary line to the largest cats. Historical biogeographic models provide robust support for the Asian origin of pantherines. The combined analyses indicate that 75% of the divergence events in the pantherine lineage extended back to the Miocene, up to 7 Myr earlier than previously estimated. The deeper evolutionary origin of big cats revealed by the new fossils and analyses indicate a close association between Tibetan Plateau uplift and diversification of the earliest living cats. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 资助信息 | National Basic Research Program of China (973 program) [2012CB821904]; Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB03020104]; NSF GRF; DDIG; AMNH Frick Post-Doctoral Fellowship; NSF [EAR-0446699, 0444073, 0958704, 1227212]; NMNH Peter Buck Post-Doctoral Fellowship; NGS Waitt Grant [W22-08] |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 公开日期 | 2014-12-12 |
| 源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5188]  |
| 专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古哺乳动物研究室 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Tseng, ZJ,Wang, XM,Slater, GJ,et al. Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats[J]. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2014,281(1774):281. |
| APA | Tseng, ZJ.,Wang, XM.,Slater, GJ.,Takeuchi, GT.,Li, Q.,...&Xie, GP.(2014).Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats.PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,281(1774),281. |
| MLA | Tseng, ZJ,et al."Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats".PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 281.1774(2014):281. |
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