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Early Pleistocene hominid teeth recovered in Mohui cave in Bubing Basin, Guangxi, South China
Two hominid teeth recovered in Mohui cave are morphologically distinguished from Australopithecus in Africa, but close to Homo erectus in China. These teeth are therefore provisionally assigned to Homo erectus. The associated mammalian fauna include Gigantopithecus blacki, Nestoritherium sp., Sus xiaozhu, Sus peii and Ailuropoda microta, which are typical early Pleistocene taxa in South China. The general characteristics of the Mohui faunal assemblage are similar to the Longgupo site, which is dated to 2 Ma, implying a contemporaneity for the two sites. To date, compared with the discoveries in Africa, far fewer early Pleistocene hominid fossils have been recovered in Asia, and there are intensive controversies concerning their stratigraphic provenience and typological and temporal positions. The hominid fossils from Mohui cave, with their reliable biostratigraphic positions and distinct typological features, provide important evidence regarding the issue of early human origins and evolution.
作 者： WANG Wei Richard Potts HOU Yamei CHEN Yunfa WU Huaying YUAN Baoyin HUANG Weiwen 作者單位： WANG Wei(Faculty of Earth Science, China University of Geoscience, Wuhan 430074, China;Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning 530012, China)Richard Potts(Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560-0112, USA)
HOU Yamei,HUANG Weiwen(Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China)
CHEN Yunfa,WU Huaying(Natural History Museum of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning 530012, China)
YUAN Baoyin(Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China)
刊 名： 科學通報（英文版） SCI 英文刊名： CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 年，卷(期)： 2005 50(23) 分類號： P5 關(guān)鍵詞： Mohui cave hominid teeth stone artifact mammalian fauna early Pleistocene【Early Pleistocene hominid teeth reco】相關(guān)文章：
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