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 …

Evidence for the smallest fossil Pongo in southern China

H Liang, T Harrison, Q Shao, JJ Bahain, J Mo… - Journal of Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rarity of Pongo fossils with precise absolute dating from the Middle Pleistocene hampers
our understanding of the taxonomy and spatiotemporal distribution of Quaternary …

Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China

T Harrison, Y Zhang, L Yang, Z Yuan - Journal of Human Evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
More than 800 isolated teeth of fossil Pongo have been recovered from cave sites in the
vicinity of Chongzuo in Guangxi, southern China, ranging from the Early to Late Pleistocene …

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 …

Fossil Pongo from the Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus fauna of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China

T Harrison, C Jin, Y Zhang, Y Wang, M Zhu - Quaternary International, 2014 - Elsevier
More than seventy isolated teeth of fossil Pongo are reported from Baikong, Juyuan and
Queque Caves in Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China. This Early Pleistocene material …

Dental microwear and diets of mainland fossil Pongo from the Mid-Pleistocene of southern China

Y Fan, LK Fehringer, W Liao, H Liang, W Wang… - Journal of Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Orangutans today have versatile diets dependent upon variation in food availability across
time (season) and space (local habitat; Delgado and van Schaik, 2000; Russon et al., 2009; …

Enamel thickness in the deciduous postcanine dentition of fossil and extant Pongo

Z Yi, C Zanolli, W Liao, H Liang, Y Yao, C Tian… - Journal of Human …, 2024 - Elsevier
Among extant great apes, Pongo is the only genus represented by a substantial Pleistocene
fossil record that is distributed across South China, mainland Southeast Asia, and the …

Dental evolution of the orang-utan in China

CK Ho, GX Zhou, DR Swindler - Human evolution, 1995 - Springer
The main focus of this paper is to report the spatial and temporal distributions of fossil and
subfossil orang-utans in south and southwest China from the late Miocene through Pliocene …

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

CB Wang, LX Zhao, CZ Jin, Y Wang, DG Qin… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Twenty-eight (28) isolated orangutan fossil teeth are reported in this paper, which
are newly discovered from Sanhe Cave in Chongzuo Ecological Park of Guangxi in …

[HTML][HTML] Disentangling isolated dental remains of Asian Pleistocene hominins and pongines

TM Smith, A Houssaye, O Kullmer, A Le Cabec… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Scholars have debated the taxonomic identity of isolated primate teeth from the Asian
Pleistocene for over a century, which is complicated by morphological and metric …