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

Authors :
Lopatin AV
Maschenko EN
Vislobokova IA
Serdyuk NV
Dac LX
Source :
Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections [Dokl Biol Sci] 2021 Jan; Vol. 496 (1), pp. 1-4. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 26.
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

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.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
1608-3105
Volume :
496
Issue :
1
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
33635480
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496621010099