This book is a comprehensive, chronologically ordered review of China's vertebrate fossil record. It also presents a history of vertebrate paleontological studies in China and an entrée to some important issues of systematics, evolutionary history, paleoecology, taphonomy, and functional anatomy best elucidated by China's fossils.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Political Divisions of China
Geological Setting
Vertebrate Biochronology
Some Features of This Book
Chapter 2: History of Vertebrate Paleontological Studies
Basalla’s Model
Ancient Chinese Observations on Fossil Vertebrates
Dragon Bones: Nineteenth-Century Western Paleontology and China’s Vertebrate Fossils
Johan Gunnar Andersson and the Lagrelius Collection
Otto Zdansky
Black, Bohlin, and Zhoukoudian
End of the Sino-Swedish Paleontological Program
The Central Asiatic Expeditions
The 1920s–1930s: Foreign Vertebrate Paleontologists Living in China
C. C. Young and Minchen Chow
The IVPP
New Collaboration
The Three-Stage Model
Chapter 3: Cambrian-Silurian
Silurian Vertebrate-Producing Strata
Early Silurian—Dayongaspis Biochron
Early Middle Silurian—Hanyangaspis Biochron
Late Middle Silurian—Sinogalaeaspis Biochron
Late Silurian—Nostolepis Biochron
China’s Oldest Vertebrates
Silurian Vertebrate Biochronology
Silurian Vertebrate Paleobiogeography
Chapter 4: Devonian
Devonian Vertebrate-Producing Strata
Early Devonian—Yunnanolepis Biochron
Early Devonian Paleocommunities
Middle Devonian—Bothriolepis Biochron
Late Devonian—Remigolepis Biochron
Systematics of Devonian Agnathans
Diabolepis and Lungfish Phylogeny
Devonian Vertebrate Biogeography
Chapter 5: Carboniferous
Carboniferous Vertebrate Occurrences
Acanthodes
Chondrichthyans
Heliocoprionid from Xinjiang
Prospectus
Chapter 6: Permian
Permian Nonmarine Strata in the Junggur and Ordos Basins
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