Presence of the Middle Pleistocene cave bears in China confirmed - Evidence from Zhoukoudian area

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023272:_____/18:10134102

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.012" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.012</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.012" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.012</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Presence of the Middle Pleistocene cave bears in China confirmed - Evidence from Zhoukoudian area

Original language description

For a long time, it is controversial whether cave bears have ever lived in China during the Pleistocene. Here we checked the published and unpublished bear fossils from Zhoukoudian (North China) housed in Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Palaeoanthropology, CAS and Zhoukoudian Site Museum, and compared them with contemporary cave bears and brown bears. Our observation confirms the existence of cave bears only in Loc. 1 of Zhoukoudian. The general morphology of cave bears in China is similar to that of the early Middle Pleistocene cave bears in Europe and this bear can be assigned to Ursus deningeri. The metacarpals of U. deningeri from Loc. 1 of Zhoukoudian are much plumper than those of the approximately contemporary U. deningeri from Hundsheim (Austria) and are similar to those of the Late Pleistocene U. spelaeus/ingressus, presumably with a good digging ability. In contrast to Europe and Caucasus, cave bears from China are much less abundant than brown bears during the Middle Pleistocene.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10506 - Paleontology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Quaternary Science Reviews

ISSN

0277-3791

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

199

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1 November

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

1-17

UT code for WoS article

000448493900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85053532052