Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. East Asia
5. Chapter 1. Neogene Land Mammal Stages/Ages of China 29
6. Chapter 2. North China Neogene Biochronology 91
7. Chapter 3. A Single- Point Base Definition of the Xiejian Age as an Exemplar for Refining Chinese Land Mammal Ages 124
8. Chapter 4. Early Miocene Xiejiahe and Sihong Fossil Localities and Their Faunas, Eastern China 142
9. Chapter 5. Neogene Faunal Succession and Biochronology of Central Nei Mongol (Inner Mongolia) 155
10. Chapter 6 Mammalian Biochronology of the Late Miocene Bahe Formation 187
11. Chapter 7. Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of the Classical Dragon Bone Localities of Baode County, Shanxi Province 203
12. Chapter 8. Review of the Litho-, Bio-, and Chronostratigraphy in the Nihewan Basin, Hebei, China 218
13. Chapter 9. Late Cenozoic Biostratigraphy of the Linxia Basin, Northwestern China 243
14. Chapter 10. Neogene Mammalian Biostratigraphy and Geochronology of the Tibetan Plateau 274
15. Chapter 11. Hominoid- Producing Localities and Biostratigraphy in Yunnan 293
16. Chapter 12. Miocene Land Mammals and Stratigraphy of Japan 314
17. Chapter 13. Pliocene Land Mammals of Japan 334
18. Part II. South and Southeast Asia
19. Chapter 14. The Siwaliks and Neogene Evolutionary Biology in South Asia 353
20. Chapter 15. The Neogene Siwaliks of the Potwar Plateau, Pakistan 373
21. Chapter 16. Mammalian Neogene Biostratigraphy of the Sulaiman Province, Pakistan 400
22. Chapter 17. Indian Neogene Siwalik Mammalian Biostratigraphy 423
23. Chapter 18. Paleobiogeography and South Asian Small Mammals 445
24. Chapter 19. Advances in the Biochronology and Biostratigraphy of the Continental Neogene of Myanmar 461
25. Part III. North and Central Asia
26. Chapter 20. Miocene Mammal Biostratigraphy of Central Mongolia (Valley of Lakes) 477
27. Chapter 21. Late Cenozoic Mammal Faunas of the Baikalian Region 495
28. Chapter 22. New Data on Miocene Biostratigraphy and Paleoclimatology of Olkhon Island (Lake Baikal, Siberia) 508
29. Part IV. West Asia and Adjacent Regions
30. Chapter 23. Late Miocene Mammal Localities of Eastern Eu rope and Western Asia 521
31. Chapter 24 Late Miocene (Turolian) Vertebrate Faunas from Southern Europe an Russia 538
32. Chapter 25. Recent Advances in Paleobiological Research of the Late Miocene Maragheh Fauna, Northwest Iran 546
33. 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 566
34. Chapter 27. Late Miocene Fossils from the Baynunah Formation, United Arab Emirates 583
35. Chapter 28. Neogene Mammal Biostratigraphy and Chronology of Greece 595
36. Part V. Zoogeography and Paleoecology
37. Chapter 29. Continental- Scale Patterns in Neogene Mammal Community Evolution and Biogeography 629
38. Chapter 30. Intercontinental Dispersals of Sicistine Rodents (Sicistinae, Dipodidae, Rodentia) Between Eurasia and North America 656
39. Chapter 31. Paleodietary Comparisons of Ungulates Between the Late Miocene of China, and Pikermi and Samos in Greece 676
40. List of Contributors 693
41. Taxonomic Index 701
42. General Index 723