New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China

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	New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China
	Zhao, L. X.1,2; Zhang, L. Z.1,2; zhaolingxia@ivpp.ac.cn
	2013-02-12
发表期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
卷号	286 期号:0 页码:69-74
文章类型	Article
摘要	The present paper reports the recently discovered fossil teeth of Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki and associated mammalian fauna from Baeryan Cave, Bijie County in Guizhou Province, and also reviews briefly the known fossil sites of Gigantopithecus in south China of Pleistocene. In Early Pleistocene, Gigantopithecus had a wider distribution, but withdrew southward in Middle Pleistocene to a limited area mainly in South China, and it disappeared in the Late Pleistocene according to the present fossil records. Diet and habitat analysis from carbon isotope evidence is used to investigate the reasons for the extinction of Gigantopithecus, which fed on a pure C-3 diet and lived in a forest habitat. It was clearly different from early hominins in South and East Africa, such as Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus and Paranthropus boisei, which had C-4 diets. The extinction of Gigantopithecus was also related to the great changes of climate and environment of the Pleistocene, especially the last one million years, during which Homo became more and more prosperous and exerted great pressure on G. blacki. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
关键词	Pleistocene Hominins Plants Boisei Teeth Cave
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
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关键词[WOS]	PLEISTOCENE ; HOMININS ; PLANTS ; BOISEI ; TEETH ; CAVE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000314442200008
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4213
专题	古人类及旧石器研究室
通讯作者	zhaolingxia@ivpp.ac.cn
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Lab Human Evolut, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, L. X.,Zhang, L. Z.,zhaolingxia@ivpp.ac.cn. New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2013,286(0):69-74.
APA	Zhao, L. X.,Zhang, L. Z.,&zhaolingxia@ivpp.ac.cn.(2013).New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,286(0),69-74.
MLA	Zhao, L. X.,et al."New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 286.0(2013):69-74.