New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China

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	New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China
	Zhao, L. X.（赵凌霞） ; Zhang, L. Z.（张立召）
刊名	QUATERN INT
	2013
卷号	286 期号:0 页码:69—74
关键词	PLEISTOCENE HOMININS PLANTS BOISEI TEETH CAVE
ISSN号	1040-6182
通讯作者	zhaolingxia@ivpp.ac.cn
英文摘要	The present paper reports the recently discovered fossil teeth of Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus blacki and associated mammalian fauna from Baeryan Cave, Bijie County in Guizhou Province, and also reviews briefly the known fossil sites of Gigantopithecus in south China of Pleistocene. In Early Pleistocene, Gigantopithecus had a wider distribution, but withdrew southward in Middle Pleistocene to a limited area mainly in South China, and it disappeared in the Late Pleistocene according to the present fossil records. Diet and habitat analysis from carbon isotope evidence is used to investigate the reasons for the extinction of Gigantopithecus, which fed on a pure C-3 diet and lived in a forest habitat. It was clearly different from early hominins in South and East Africa, such as Australopithecus africanus, Paranthropus robustus and Paranthropus boisei, which had C-4 diets. The extinction of Gigantopithecus was also related to the great changes of climate and environment of the Pleistocene, especially the last one million years, during which Homo became more and more prosperous and exerted great pressure on G. blacki. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
原文出处	10.1016/j.quaint.2011.12.016
公开日期	2013-11-27
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4214]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古人类及旧石器研究室
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhao, L. X.,Zhang, L. Z.. New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China[J]. QUATERN INT,2013,286(0):69—74.
APA	Zhao, L. X.,&Zhang, L. Z..(2013).New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China.QUATERN INT,286(0),69—74.
MLA	Zhao, L. X.,et al."New fossil evidence and diet analysis of Gigantopithecus blacki and its distribution and extinction in South China".QUATERN INT 286.0(2013):69—74.