Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 1997, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (03): 209-220.

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A pleistocene mammalian fauna from Panxian Dadong, Guizhou province

Zhang Zhenhong; Liu Jun; Zhang Hangang; Yuan Chengwu   

  • Online:1997-09-15 Published:1997-09-15

Abstract: The fossil materials described in the present paper come from excavations of 1992 and 1993 at Panxian Dadong , a cave site in Guizhou Province of Southeastern China. They a re identified into 43 speciess, including 2 species of Primate and one species of Homo, which a re reported in other two papers ( see Pa n and Yuan, 1997 and Liu and Si, 1997) . This fauna belongs to a mid-late Middle Pleistocene one and lived in a transitional area between Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and hilly area of Southeastern Asia. It consists of the important members of Ailuropoda-Stegodon fauna of South China, as w ell as some local species o f Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, and indicates a kind of subtropical climate which includes several dry-cool shifts.

Key words: Pleistocene s fauna, Panxian Dadong