Tham Om Cave: Middle Pleistocene, Vietnam

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Pongo sp. Lacépède 1799
Pongo pygmaeus (Linnaeus 1760)
subspecies fromageti
Gigantopithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1935
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinoceros sinensis Owen 1870
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ailuropoda melanoleuca (David 1869)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon orientalis Owen 1870
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]