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Quaternary mammal fossils from north-east China (former Manchuria) have been collected and studied since the beginning of the century. But almost every previous study was based on the fossils from a certain site. There had no general study on the Quaternary mammal fossils found in the north-east China as a whole. The present paper is a part of the programme, led by Prof. Xu Qinqi,“The evolution of Quaternary mammal and its relationship with paleoclimatical variation”. The plants are sensitive to climatical changes, their evolution has greatinfluence on that of the herbivores. So the programme began with the large herbivorous mammals, the Proboscidea, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla (including omnivorous suids which are large consummers of plants). They can be summarized as follows (the extinct species are marked with an asterisk):
Quaternary mammal fossils from north-east China (former Manchuria) have been collected and learned since the beginning of the century. But almost any previous study was based on the fossils from a certain site. There had no general study on the Quaternary mammal fossils found in the north-east China as a whole. The present paper is a part of the program, led by Prof. Xu Qinqi, “The evolution of Quaternary mammal and its relationship with paleoclimatical variation ”. The plants are sensitive to climatical changes , their evolution has great affect on that of the herbivores. So the program began with the large herbivorous mammals, the Proboscidea, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla (including omnivorous suids which are large consummers of plants). They can be summarized as the the extinct species are marked with an asterisk):