Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats

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	Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats
	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
	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
内容类型	期刊论文
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.