Tham Om Cave (Pleistocene of Vietnam)

Where: Vietnam (19.4° N, 105.0° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 105.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; red siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. H. Schwartz, V. T. Long, N. L. Cuong, L. T. Kha, and I. Tattersall. 1995. A review of the Pleistocene hominoid fauna of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (excluding Hylobatidae). Anthropological Paper of the American Museum of Natural History 76:1-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 108001: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 21.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Stegodon orientalis" = Stegodon insignis
"Stegodon orientalis" = Stegodon insignis Falconer 1857 elephant
 Primates - Hominidae
Pongo sp. Lacépède 1799 orangutan
Pongo pygmaeus Linnaeus 1760 Bornean orangutan
subspecies fromageti
Gigantopithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1935 ape
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ailuropoda melanoleuca David 1869 giant panda
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sinensis Owen 1870 one-horned rhinoceros