Shihuiba
Shihuiba is after the village Shihuiba ( Chinese 石灰坝村 , Pinyin Shíhuībà Cun named) archaeological site of lufengpithecus - and Laccopithecus - fossils in the county Lufeng of Autonomous Prefecture of Chuxiong Yi in the Chinese province of Yunnan . A skull of Lufengpithecus was discovered in 1980, the genus Laccopithecus was first described in 1984. The finds are dated around 8 million years ago and are considered fossil relatives of the orangutans or gibbons living today . The Lufengpithecus fossils were initially assigned to the genus Ramapithecus ; however, since 1987 they have been listed as an independent genre. The finds from Shihuiba have since been referred to as Lufengpithecus lufengensis .
The fossil site ( 腊 玛 古猿 化石 地点 , Làmǎ gǔyuán huàshí dìdiǎn ) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-181) since 1988 . She is considered one of the richest sites of ancestors of apes in Eurasia .
literature
- Pan Yuerong: Small fossil primates from Lufeng, a latest Miocene site in Yunnan Province, China. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 17, No. 3, 1988, pp. 359-366, doi: 10.1016 / 0047-2484 (88) 90076-0
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chinese 腊 玛 古猿 , Pinyin Lama guyuan
- ^ Fossil Site of Lama Ape Man. On: chinaculture.org
- ^ R. Wu: A revision of the classification of the Lufeng great apes. In: Acta Anthrop. Sin. , Vol. 6, 1987, pp. 265-271
- ↑ Terry Harrison et al: On the systematic status of the late Neogene hominoids from Yunnan Province, China. In: Journal of Human Evolution , Volume 43, 2002, pp. 207-227, doi : 10.1006 / jhev.2002.0570
Coordinates: 25 ° 13 ′ 37 ″ N , 102 ° 3 ′ 56 ″ E