Femur of Schizotheriinae (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae) from the lower Miocene Hiramaki Formation of the Mizunami Group in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan

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Citation for this article: Handa, N., and S. Kawabe. 2016. Femur of Schizotheriinae (Perissodactyla, Chalicotheriidae) from the lower Miocene Hiramaki Formation of the Mizunami Group in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1131163.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank M. C. Coombs (University of Massachusetts, USA) for her numerous comments on Chalicotheriidae and S.-K. Chen (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China) for his helpful comments and provision of references. We also thank K. Miyata (Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum, Japan) for providing a reference. M. C. Coombs and an anonymous reviewer made constructive suggestions for improvement of the original article. This study was partly supported by funding from the Nagano Society for Promotion of Science, Japan.