Preliminary description of a late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna prior to the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki from the Yixiantian Cave, Guangxi ZAR, South China

doi:10.1002/ar.25200

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	Preliminary description of a late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna prior to the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki from the Yixiantian Cave, Guangxi ZAR, South China
	Pan, Yue 1; Zhang, Yingqi 1; Yang, Liyun 2; Takai, Masanaru 3; Harrison, Terry 4; Westaway, Kira 5; Jin, Changzhu 1
	2023-07-28
发表期刊	ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
ISSN	1932-8486
页码	26
通讯作者	Pan, Yue(panyue18@mails.ucas.ac.cn) ; Zhang, Yingqi(zhangyingqi@ivpp.ac.cn)
摘要	In recent years, nearly 20 cave sites with rich assemblages of mammalian fossils have been found and excavated in the Chongzuo area, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Their ages are distributed throughout the entire Pleistocene Epoch. These discoveries have greatly facilitated our understanding of the evolution of the Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna and the environmental context of human evolution in southern China. Here, we present a preliminary report on a diverse late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna from the Yixiantian Cave in southern China, which is a typical representative of the Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna (sensu lato). The fossil mammals are represented by isolated dental remains only. In 2010 and 2011, two seasons of systematic excavations at the Yixiantian Cave yielded a total of 4,958 identifiable mammalian teeth. They were identified as belonging to 37 species and 6 orders of mammals. In addition, the tooth type of all the teeth representing each species was also determined where possible. A single fragmentary molar was identified as belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, indicating that its population had declined sharply at this time and was on the brink of extinction. Description of the Yixiantian fauna will not only help better characterize the composition of the Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna during the late Middle Pleistocene, but also clarify our understanding of the paleoenvironmental context at a time just prior to the extinction of G. blacki.
关键词	fossil assemblage Gigantopithecus blacki paleoenvironment Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna
DOI	10.1002/ar.25200
关键词[WOS]	BUBING BASIN ; NORTHERN VIETNAM ; FOSSIL REMAINS ; MULAN MOUNTAIN ; YANLIANG CAVE ; MOHUI CAVE ; CHONGZUO ; EVOLUTION ; TEETH ; PERISSODACTYLA
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS)[173132]
项目资助者	Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS)
WOS研究方向	Anatomy & Morphology
WOS类目	Anatomy & Morphology
WOS记录号	WOS:001037426000001
出版者	WILEY
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/22761
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Pan, Yue; Zhang, Yingqi
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol IVPP, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Zhuang Ethnol Museum Chongzuo, Chongzuo, Peoples R China 3.Kyoto Univ, Kyoto Univ Museum, Kyoto, Japan 4.NYU, Ctr Study Human Origins, Dept Anthropol, New York, NY USA 5.Macquarie Univ, Sch Nat Sci, Traps Luminescence Dating Facil, Sydney, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Pan, Yue,Zhang, Yingqi,Yang, Liyun,et al. Preliminary description of a late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna prior to the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki from the Yixiantian Cave, Guangxi ZAR, South China[J]. ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY,2023:26.
APA	Pan, Yue.,Zhang, Yingqi.,Yang, Liyun.,Takai, Masanaru.,Harrison, Terry.,...&Jin, Changzhu.(2023).Preliminary description of a late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna prior to the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki from the Yixiantian Cave, Guangxi ZAR, South China.ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY,26.
MLA	Pan, Yue,et al."Preliminary description of a late Middle Pleistocene mammalian fauna prior to the extinction of Gigantopithecus blacki from the Yixiantian Cave, Guangxi ZAR, South China".ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2023):26.