New Fossil Hyena From Tibet

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Chasmaporthetes gangsriensis: New Fossil Hyena

Found in Tibet by Sergio Prostak, Dec. 28, 2013

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-chasmaporthetes-gangsriensis-hyena-tibet-01646.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BreakingScienceNews+%28Breaking+Science+News%29

Yours,

New cursorial hyena found from the late Cenozoic

Zanda Basin of Tibetan Plateau, PhysOrg, Dec. 16, 2013

http://phys.org/news/2013-12-cursorial-hyena-late-cenozoic-zanda.html

The paper is:

Tseng, Z. J., Q. Li, and X. Wang, 2013, A New Cursorial

Hyena from Tibet, and Analysis of Biostratigraphy,

Paleozoogeography, and Dental Morphology of

Chasmaporthetes (Mammalia, Carnivora). Journal of

Vertebrate Paleontology. vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1457-1471.

doi: dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2013.775142

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2013.775142

Other articles are:

Scientists establish a mammalian biostratigraphy

in the Zanda Basin, southwestern Tibet. PhysOrg,

April 01, 2013 http://phys.org/news/2013-04-scientists-mammalian-biostratigraphy-zanda-basin.html

Zanda Basin yields new Pantherine fossils

November 25, 2013 http://phys.org/news/2013-11-zanda-basin-yields-pantherine-fossils.html

Paul H.

Edited December 29, 2013 by Oxytropidoceras