Juvenile hominoid cranium from the terminal Miocene of Yunnan,China  

作　　者：JI XuePing JABLONSKI Nina G SU Denise F DENG ChengLong FLYNN Lawrence J YOU YouShan KELLEY Jay 

机构地区：[1]Department of Paleoanthropology, Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology [2]Yunnan Key Laboratory for Paleobiology, Yunnan University [3]Department of Anthropology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park,PA 16802, USA [4]Department of Paleobotany and Paleoecology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History,Cleveland, OH 44106, USA [5]State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution,Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences [6]Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 02138, USA [7]Zhaotong Institute of Cultural Relics [8]Institute of Human Origins and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University,Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》2013年第31期3771-3779,共9页

基　　金：supported by the National Science Foundation(BCS 1035897,BCS 1227838 and BCS 0321893);Bryn Mawr College,the American Association of Physical Anthropologists the Yunnan Natural Science Foundation(2010CC010);the Zhaotong Government,the National Basic Research Program of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(2012CB821900 and 40925012)

摘　　要：Fossil apes are known from several late Miocene localities in Yunnan Province,southwestern China,principally from Shihuiba(Lufeng)and the Yuanmou Basin,and represent three species of Lufengpithecus.They mostly comprise large samples of isolated teeth,but there are also several partial or complete adult crania from Shihuiba and a single juvenile cranium from Yuanmou.Here we describe a new,relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium from the terminal Miocene locality of Shuitangba,also in Yunnan.It is only the second ape juvenile cranium recovered from the Miocene of Eurasia and it is provisionally assigned to the species present at Shihuiba,Lufengpithecus lufengensis.Lufengpithecus has most often been linked to the extant orangutan,Pongo pygmaeus,but recent studies of the crania from Shihuiba and Yuanmou have demonstrated that this is unlikely.The new cranium reinforces the view that Lufengpithecus represents a distinct,late surviving lineage of large apes in the late Miocene of East Asia that does not appear to be closely affiliated with any extant ape lineage.It substantially increases knowledge of cranial morphology in Lufengpithecus and demonstrates that species of this genus represent a morphologically diverse radiation of apes,which is consistent with the dynamic tectonic and biotic milieu of southwestern China in the late Miocene.Fossil apes are known from several late Miocene localities in Yunnan Province, southwestern China, principally from Shihuiba （Lufeng） and the Yuanmou Basin, and represent three species of Lufengpithecus. They mostly comprise large samples of isolated teeth, but there are also several partial or complete adult crania from Shihuiba and a single juvenile cranium from Yuanmou. Here we describe a new, relatively complete and largely undistorted juvenile cranium from the terminal Miocene locality of Shuitangba, also in Yunnan. It is only the second ape juvenile cranium recovered from the Miocene of Eurasia and it is provisionally assigned to the species present at Shihuiba, Lufengpithecus lufengensis. Lufengpithecus has most often been linked to the extant orangutan, Pongo pygmaeus, but recent studies of the crania from Shihuiba and Yuanmou have demonstrated that this is unlikely. The new cranium reinforces the view that Lufengpithecus represents a distinct, late surviving lineage of large apes in the late Miocene of East Asia that does not appear to be closely affiliated with any extant ape lineage. It substantially increases knowledge of cranial morphology in Lufengpithecus and demonstrates that species of this genus represent a morphologically diverse radiation of apes, which is consistent with the dynamic tectonic and biotic milieu of southwestern China in the late Miocene.

关 键 词：晚中新世 禄丰古猿 中国云南 头盖骨 少年 终端 中国西南地区 元谋盆地 

分 类 号：Q915[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]