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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lopatin, A. V.
• Maschenko, E. N.
• Vislobokova, I. A.
• Serdyuk, N. V.
• Dac, Le Xuan

Titel

Pleistocene Mammals from the Lang Trang Cave (Vietnam): New Data

Ist Teil von

• Doklady. Biological sciences, 2021, Vol.496 (1), p.1-4

Ort / Verlag

Moscow: Pleiades Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Quelle

SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• — The following mammal assemblage was identified among the materials collected in 2020 from the Pleistocene of the Lang Trang cave (northern Vietnam): the primates Pongo sp., Trachypithecus sp., Macaca cf. nemestrina (Linnaeus, 1766), and Macaca sp.; the carnivorans Arctonyx collaris rostratus Matthew et Granger, 1923 and Panthera sp.; the chiropteran Ia io Thomas, 1902; the rodent Hystrix kiangsenensis Wang, 1931; the proboscidean Elephas sp.; the perissodactyls Tapirus indicus (Desmarest, 1819) and Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Fischer, 1814); the artiodactyls Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758, S . barbatus Müller, 1838, Tragulus kanchil (Raffles, 1821), Hydropotes inermis Swinhoe, 1870, Muntiacus muntjak (Zimmermann, 1780), Axis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780), Rusa unicolor (Kerr, 1792), and Capricornis sumatraensis (Bechstein, 1799). I .  io , S . barbatus , T . kanchil , H . inermis , and A . porcinus were detected in the Lang Trang fauna for the first time. The mammal assemblage is dominated by inhabitants of tropical forests (from lowlands to mountains), subtropical forms are also present.