Fossil and occurrence points of Rhinocerotidae, Elephantidae, Equus, and Camelus in China from the Pleistocene to the present

Rhinocerotidae, Elephantidae, Equus, and Camelus are large herbivorous
mammals that have inhabited China from the Pleistocene to the present. Wen
et al. studied a large amount of historical data to map the historical
occurrences of these animals in China, including a small number of fossil
sites and a majority of occurrence points recorded in the literature. We
digitized the paper maps of these four taxa to create this dataset. This
dataset includes 899 records of Rhinocerotidae, 534 records of
Elephantidae, 277 records of Equus, and 417 records of Camelus.

犀科（Rhinocerotidae）、象科（Elephantidae）、马属（Equus）与驼属（Camelus）均为大型植食性哺乳动物，自更新世（Pleistocene）以来便栖息于中国境内。Wen等通过梳理海量历史资料，绘制了上述四类动物在中国的历史分布记录，其中包含少量化石位点与绝大多数文献记载的分布点位。本数据集由我们将这四类类群的纸质分布地图数字化后构建而成，共包含犀科记录899条、象科记录534条、马属记录277条以及驼属记录417条。