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

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Abstract

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.