云南元谋盆地,是一个长条状的、不规则的断陷盆地。由于盆地内新生代地层十分发育,露头很好,加之地层中含有相当丰富的脊椎动物化石,半个世纪以来,地质、古生物工作者在此进行过许多调查和研究工作。但是一些重要的发现和对其更多的认识还是最近 Yuanmou Basin, Yunnan, is a long, irregular fault basin. Since the Cenozoic strata in the basin were well developed and well outcropped, and the strata contained quite a lot of vertebrate fossils, geologists and paleontologists have conducted many investigations and studies here for half a century. But some important discoveries and more recognition of them are still recent