Morphometric analysis of fossil hylobatid molars from the Pleistocene of southern China
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- ORTIZ ALEJANDRA
- Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe
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- ZHANG YINGQI
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing
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- JIN CHANGZHU
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing
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- WANG YUAN
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing
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- ZHU MIN
- School of History, Beijing Normal University, Beijing
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- YAN YALING
- The Geoscience Museum, Hebei GEO University, Shijiazhuang
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- KIMOCK CLARE
- Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York
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- VILLAMIL CATALINA I.
- School of Chiropractic, Universidad Central del Caribe, Bayamón
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- HE KAI
- School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou
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- HARRISON TERRY
- Center for the Study of Human Origins, Department of Anthropology, New York University, New York New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology, New York
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<p>This study investigates the morphological variation and taxonomic affinities of 28 fossil gibbon molars from eight newly discovered Pleistocene cave sites in the area of Chongzuo, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. A recent descriptive analysis demonstrated that these fossil teeth form a uniform group that can be assigned to a single species of Nomascus. In this contribution, a two-dimensional morphometric approach is employed to examine the Chongzuo specimens in comparison with a large sample of extant hylobatids, as well as with previously reported hylobatid dental remains from the Pleistocene of China. Buccolingual and mesiodistal measurements and crown outline areas reveal that the Chongzuo molars correspond most closely with Nomascus and, to a lesser extent, Hoolock. Crown shape was investigated using elliptical Fourier analysis. Our results show that the Chongzuo specimens fall in most cases either within the range of variation of extant Nomascus to the exclusion of all other hylobatid genera, or their distance from the cluster represented by the Nomascus sample is relatively small. Similarly, the Mahalanobis distances for crown shape show a trend towards smaller morphological distances between the Chongzuo specimens and Nomascus, followed by Hoolock and Hylobates. The Chongzuo molars are also morphometrically distinct from Bunopithecus sericus, but fall within the range of overlap of other Pleistocene hylobatid dental remains from southern China. The balance of evidence indicates that the Chongzuo teeth can be attributed to cf. Nomascus. The fossil teeth are sufficiently distinct from those of extant Nomascus that they may represent an extinct species.</p>
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- Anthropological Science
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Anthropological Science 127 (2), 109-121, 2019
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- CRID
- 1390564238112398976
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- 130007696473
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- AA11307827
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- 13488570
- 09187960
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- 029902309
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