Abstract

Speleological, geological and paleontological characteristics of the Lang Trang cave in northern Vietnam are presented. Primates Gigantopithecus blacki von Koenigswald, 1935, Pongo sp., Trachypithecus sp., Presbytis sp., Macaca nemestrina (Linnaeus, 1766), M. cf. fascicularis Raffles, 1821, M. cf. mulatta (Zimmermann, 1780), and Macaca sp., carnivorans Pantheratigris (Linnaeus, 1758), Neofelis nebulosa (Griffith, 1821), and Arctonyx collarisrostratus Matthew et Granger, 1923, lipotyphlan Chodsigoa hoffmanni Chen et al., 2017, rodents Hystrix kiangsenensis Wang, 1931, Leopoldamys neilli (Marshall, 1976), and Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758), proboscidean Elephas sp., perissodactyls Tapirus indicus (Desmarest, 1819) and Dicerorhinus sumatrensis (Fischer, 1814), artiodactyls Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758, S. barbatus Müller, 1838, Muntiacus muntjak (Zimmermann, 1780), Axis porcinus (Zimmermann, 1780), Rusa unicolor (Kerr, 1792), and Capricornis sumatraensis (Bechstein, 1799), as well as crocodile Crocodylus sp. (first record in northern Vietnam) are determined among the Pleistocene fossils collected in the cave in 2021. M. cf. fascicularis, M. cf. mulatta, N. nebulosa, L. neilli and R. rattus have been identified in the Lang Trang fauna for the first time. The find of a giant ape, G. blacki, is of particular importance, since it is the only record in the Upper Pleistocene of Vietnam and one of the youngest findings in the world.

(Fulltext: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X22060101)

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