Juvenile hominoid cranium from the terminal Miocene of Yunnan, China

Magnetostratigraphy of the Xiaolongtan Formation bearing Lufengpithecus keiyuanensis in Yunnan, southwestern China: Constraint on the initiation time of the southern segment of the Xianshuihe–Xiaojiang fault

“…Among the hominoids in eastern and southern Asia (Fig. 1), Sivapithecus from Pakistan is~12.5 Ma (Barry et al, 2002;Kappelman et al, 1991), K. chiangmuanensis from Chiang Muan Basin, northern Thailand is 13.5-10 Ma (Benammi et al, 2004;Chaimanee et al, 2003), or 12.4-13 Ma (Suganuma et al, 2006) or 12.4-12.2 Ma (Coster et al, 2010), K. piriyai from Khorat in northeast Thailand is 9-7 Ma , K. ayeyarwadyensis from Myanmar is 10.4-8.8 Ma (Jaeger et al, 2011), L. lufengensis from Shihuiba in the Lufeng Basin is 6.9-5.8 Ma (Flynn and Qi, 1982;Qi et al, 2006); L. hudienensis in the Yuanmou Basin is 8.2-7.2 Ma (Ni and Qiu, 2002;Yue et al, 2004;Zhu et al, 2005), L. lufengensis in the Zhaotong Basin is~6.2 Ma (Ji et al, 2013). The age of the hominoid from Baoshan remains poorly constrained; however, it was considered to be much younger (3-5 Ma) than the others (Harrison et al, 2002).…”

“…1). They are (1) Lufengpithecus chiangmuanensis from Chiang Muan Basin, northern Thailand (Chaimanee et al, 2003), (2) Khoratpithecus piriyai from Khorat in northeast Thailand , (3) Khoratpithecus ayeyarwadyensis from Myanmar (Jaeger et al, 2011), (4) Lufengpithecus keiyuanensis from Xiaolongtan Basin (Woo, 1957;Zhang, 1987), (5) Lufengpithecus lufengensis from Shihuiba in the Lufeng Basin (Woo et al, 1981), (6) Lufengpithecus hudienensis from Xiaohe, Leilao and Zhupeng in the Yuanmou Basin (Jiang et al, 1987), (7) L. lufengensis from Shuitangba in the Zhaotong Basin (Ji et al, 2013), and (8) the hominoid from Yangyi in the Baoshan Basin, which has not been formally described yet.…”

A new otter of giant size,Siamogale melilutrasp. nov. (Lutrinae: Mustelidae: Carnivora), from the latest Miocene Shuitangba site in north-eastern Yunnan, south-western China, and a total-evidence phylogeny of lutrines

“…Palaeomagnetic studies reveal a normal polarity for the 14 m long Shuitangba fossil section, which, along with a longer drill core (120 m) several hundred metres away, was correlated to the top of subchron C3An.1n through the base of C3An.2n (Ji et al 2013), with an age estimate of 6.03-6.73 Ma (Hilgen et al 2012). However, the beds that produced the otter remains are essentially the same as those from which the hominoid fossils were recovered, which is close to »6.2 Ma (Ji et al 2013;Jablonski et al 2014).…”

“…The fauna from Shuitangba appears to be of the late Baodean Chinese Land Mammal Age (late Miocene) with typical large mammals such as the deer Muntiacus (Dong et al 2014), the tapir Tapirus , the proboscideans Stegodon and Sinomastodon , and small mammals such as the rodents Sinocastor, Kowalskia and Pliopetaurista (Ji et al 2013;Jablonski et al 2014). Palaeomagnetic studies reveal a normal polarity for the 14 m long Shuitangba fossil section, which, along with a longer drill core (120 m) several hundred metres away, was correlated to the top of subchron C3An.1n through the base of C3An.2n (Ji et al 2013), with an age estimate of 6.03-6.73 Ma (Hilgen et al 2012).…”

“…Well-preserved otter material of giant size, including crania, mandibles and postcranials, was recently unearthed from the latest Miocene lignite beds of Shuitangba in Yunnan Province (Ji et al 2013;Jablonski et al 2014) and represents a new species of fossil otter (Fig. 1).…”