Fossil cervids from China and Tibet: new evidence of evolutionary key events

鹿角是鹿科动物（鹿和鹿的亲属）特有的共同特征，具有物种特异性的形态。化石鹿角不仅可以追溯这些动物到很深的时间和日期，他们的起源，但也详细记录了他们的进化历史。最近在中国和西藏的化石遗址进行的挖掘和收集提供了鹿角遗骸，这表明物种多样性比以前认为的更大，出现模式也不同。一个综合性的项目处理欧亚鹿科的系统学和时空分布的修订，从欧洲和亚洲的专业知识，是为了作为一个基础，重新解释早中新世辐射的干鹿科和欧亚鹿科的辐射。这两个事件都是鹿科进化过程中的关键事件。

Antlers are the unique shared character of cervids (deer and kin) and have a species specific morphology. Fossil antlers not only allow for tracing these animals into deep time and date their origin, but also record their evolutionary history in detail. Recent excavations and collecting at fossil sites in China and Tibet provided antler remains which point to a larger species diversity with a different occurrence pattern than thought previously. An integrative project dealing with the revision of systematics and spatio-temporal dispersal of Eurasian Cervidae, by expertise from Europe and Asia, is meant to serve as a basis for reinterpretation of the early Miocene radiation of stem cervids and the radiation of Eurasian cervine Cervidae. Both events were key events during the evolution of Cervidae.