Tham Om Cave: Middle Pleistocene, Vietnam
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Pongo sp.
Lacépède 1799
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Pongo pygmaeus
(Linnaeus 1760)
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subspecies fromageti | ||||||||||
Gigantopithecus sp.
von Koenigswald 1935
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinoceros sinensis
Owen 1870
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapirus sp.
Brisson 1762
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ailuropoda melanoleuca
(David 1869)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon orientalis
Owen 1870
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synonym of Stegodon insignis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Vietnam |
Coordinates: | 19.4° North, 105.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 19.4° North, 105.0° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.12600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red "siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 108001 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-04-21 04:31:54 | Last modified: | 2011-04-20 14:31:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-04-21 04:31:54 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35877. | 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] |