New discovery of Early Pleistocene orangutan fossils from Sanhe Cave in Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China

Quaternary International

Volumn 354, Issue , 2014, Pages 68-74

  Wang, Cui Bin ^a,b   Zhao, Ling Xia ^a   Jin, Chang Zhu ^a   Wang, Yuan ^a   Qin, Da Gong ^c   Pan, Wen Shi ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Orangutan; Pleistocene; Pongo pygmaeus weidenreichi; Sanhe Cave

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 84920155654     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.020     Document Type: Article

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