Quaternary integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

C Deng, Q Hao, Z Guo, R Zhu - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Quaternary strata in China mainly comprise continental deposits in a variety of depositional
settings. The continental Quaternary in temperate northern China consists mainly of eolian …

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

J Louys, P Roberts - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

Late Pleistocene large-bodied mammalian fauna from Mocun cave in south China: palaeontological, chronological and biogeographical implications

Y Fan, Q Shao, AM Bacon, W Liao, W Wang - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports the discovery of a new mammalian assemblage at Mocun cave in 2000
by the Natural History Museum of Guangxi. The Mocun site is located in a residual karst …

Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine

F Welker, J Ramos-Madrigal, M Kuhlwilm, W Liao… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant hominid that inhabited densely forested environments of
Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch. Its evolutionary relationships to other great …

New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian (Gongwangling), China

ZY Zhu, R Dennell, WW Huang, Y Wu, ZG Rao… - Journal of Human …, 2015 - Elsevier
The Homo erectus cranium from Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province is the
oldest fossil hominin specimen from North China. It was found in 1964 in a layer below the …

Magnetostratigraphy of the Oligocene and Miocene of the Linxia Basin, northwestern China

L Sun, C Deng, T Deng, Y Kong, B Wu, S Liu… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Cenozoic biochronology framework for northern China has been based on few
vertebrate fossil localities with unverified age constraints. The Linxia Basin, located on the …

Chronological sequence of the early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus faunas from cave sites in the Chongzuo, Zuojiang River area, South China

C Jin, Y Wang, C Deng, T Harrison, D Qin, W Pan… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Since 2004, five new early Pleistocene cave sites with Gigantopithecus blacki and other
fossil mammals have been discovered in the Chongzuo, Zuojiang River area, Guangxi …

Evidence for the latest fossil Pongo in southern China

W Liao, T Harrison, Y Yao, H Liang, C Tian… - Journal of human …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pongo fossils with precise absolute age brackets are rare, limiting our understanding of their
taxonomy and spatiotemporal distribution in southern China during the Late Pleistocene …

The earliest evidence of hominid settlement in China: Combined electron spin resonance and uranium series (ESR/U-series) dating of mammalian fossil teeth from …

F Han, JJ Bahain, C Deng, É Boëda, Y Hou, G Wei… - Quaternary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Longgupo cave, located in Chongqing Municipality, China, was discovered in 1984. Sixteen
Gigantopithecus teeth and two hominid fossils accompanied with abundant mammalian …

Middle Pleistocene Pongo from Ganxian Cave in southern China with implications for understanding dental size evolution in orangutans

H Liang, T Harrison, Q Shao, JJ Bahain, J Zhao… - Journal of human …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Pongo fossil record of China extends from the Early Pleistocene to the Late Pleistocene,
but to date, no late Middle Pleistocene samples of Pongo with precise absolute dating have …