New 400-320 ka Gigantopithecus blacki remains from Hejiang Cave, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, South China

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	New 400-320 ka Gigantopithecus blacki remains from Hejiang Cave, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, South China
	Zhang, Yingqi 1; Jin, Changzhu 1; Cai, Yanjun 2; Kono, Reiko 3; Wang, Wei 4; Wang, Yuan 1; Zhu, Min 1; Yan, Yaling 1
	2014-12-15
发表期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
卷号	354 页码:35-45
文章类型	Article
摘要	Gigantopithecus blacki is a typical member of the Stegodon-Ailuropoda faunal complex (sensu lato) that inhabited southern China or, more broadly, mainland Southeast Asia during the Early and Middle Pleistocene. Current evidence indicates that the giant ape became extinct during the Middle Pleistocene. Recently, new remains of G blacki and associated mammalian fossils have been unearthed from a karst cave site, Hejiang Cave, in Chongzuo City, Guangxi, South China. The age of the Gigantopithecus-bearing depositional unit is estimated to be 400-320 ka using Th-230-U-234 disequilibrium U-series dating of flowstone samples bracketing the deposits. These finds document the latest occurrence of Gigantopithecus and provide potential insights regarding its extinction. Comparisons of dental dimensions between the Hejiang G. blacki remains, more than four hundred isolated teeth from Early Pleistocene localities, and over ninety isolated teeth from local drugstores show that the Hejiang teeth are slightly larger in their buccolingual dimensions. In addition, the crowns of the three unerupted upper premolars differ from those of all of the other Gigantopithecus material in having more complex crenulations. The differences in dental dimensions and morphology are possibly reflective of dietary responses to environmental changes that eventually led to the extinction of Gigantopithecus. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
关键词[WOS]	BUBING BASIN ; DISCRIMINANT-ANALYSIS ; EARLY PLEISTOCENE ; TEETH ; DIET ; APE ; AFFINITIES ; ASIA
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:000345523300005
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7406
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian 710075, Peoples R China 3.Natl Museum Nat & Sci, Dept Anthropol, Div Human Evolut, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050005, Japan 4.Guangxi Museum Nationalities, Nanning 530021, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yingqi,Jin, Changzhu,Cai, Yanjun,et al. New 400-320 ka Gigantopithecus blacki remains from Hejiang Cave, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, South China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2014,354:35-45.
APA	Zhang, Yingqi.,Jin, Changzhu.,Cai, Yanjun.,Kono, Reiko.,Wang, Wei.,...&Yan, Yaling.(2014).New 400-320 ka Gigantopithecus blacki remains from Hejiang Cave, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, South China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,354,35-45.
MLA	Zhang, Yingqi,et al."New 400-320 ka Gigantopithecus blacki remains from Hejiang Cave, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, South China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 354(2014):35-45.