Contents
Paleonotological Journal
Vol. 40, Suppl. 3, 2006
The supplement is published only in English by Pleiades Publishing, Inc.
Distributed worldwide by Springer. Paleontological Journal ISSN 0031-0301.
INTRODUCTION p. 206 abstract
CHAPTER 1. MATERIAL, TECHNIQUE, AND TERMINOLOGY p. 207
1.1. Material and Localities p. 207
1.2. Technique p. 210
1.3. Classification, Morphological Description, Terminology, and Nomenclature p. 210
1.4. Biochronological Terminology, Characteristics of the Early Paleogene Stage
of Small Mammal Evolution in Asia, Ecological Analysis p. 216
CHAPTER 2. REVIEW OF EARLY PALEOGENE INSECTIVORE MAMMALS OF ASIA p. 219
CHAPTER 3. SYSTEMATIC PALEONTOLOGY p. 229
Superorder Insectivora p. 229
Order Lipotyphla p. 229
Suborder Soricomorpha p. 230
Infraorder Soricota p. 230
Superfamily Micropternodontoidea p. 230
Family Micropternodontidae p. 231
Superfamily Nesophontoidea p. 240
Family Geolabididae p. 240
Superfamily Soricoidea p. 243
Family Nyctitheriidae p. 244
Family Soricidae p. 269
Family Plesiosoricidae p. 273
Superfamily Solenodontoidea p. 276
Family Apternodontidae p. 276
Suborder Erinaceomorpha p. 281
Family Erinaceidae p. 281
Order Didymoconida p. 290
Family Didymoconidae p. 291
Superorder Ferae p. 321
Order Cimolesta p. 321
Suborder Didelphodonta p. 322
Family Cimolestidae p. 322
Suborder Palaeoryctida p. 333
Family Palaeoryctidae p. 333
Suborder Pantolesta p. 340
Family Pantolestidae p. 341
CHAPTER 4. ECOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF EARLY PALEOGENE COMMUNITIES
OF INSECTIVORE MAMMALS OF ASIA p. 343
4.1. Late Paleocene Zhigden Association p. 346
4.2. Early Eocene Bumban Association p. 347
4.3. Middle Eocene Khaychin Association p. 348
CHAPTER 5. EVOLUTION OF INSECTIVORA IN THE PALEOGENE OF ASIA p. 350
5.1. Soricomorpha p. 350
5.1.1. Micropternodontidae p. 350
5.1.2. Geolabididae p. 351
5.1.3. Nyctitheriidae p. 352
5.1.4. Soricidae p. 356
5.1.5. Plesiosoricidae p. 360
5.1.6. Apternodontidae p. 361
5.1.7. Phylogenetic Relationships of Soricomorpha p. 363
5.2. Erinaceomorpha p. 366
5.2.1. Changlelestinae p. 367
5.2.2. Tupaiodontinae p. 368
5.2.3. Galericinae p. 369
5.2.4. Brachyericinae p. 371
5.2.5. Erinaceinae p. 372
5.2.6. Phylogenetic Relationships of Erinaceidae p. 374
5.3. Didymoconida p. 376
5.4. System of Insectivora p. 380
5.5. Scenario of Insectivora Evolution p. 384
CONCLUSIONS p. 386
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS p. 389
REFERENCES p. 389
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