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

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<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985831%3A_____%2F18%3A00495945" target="_blank" >RIV/67985831:_____/18:00495945 - isvavai.cz</a>

Nalezeny alternativní kódy

RIV/00023272:_____/18:10134102

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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 Here we checked the published and unpublished bear fossils from Zhoukoudian (North China) housed in Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Palaeoanthropology, CAS and Zhoukoudian Site Museum, and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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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 Here we checked the published and unpublished bear fossils from Zhoukoudian (North China) housed in Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Palaeoanthropology, CAS and Zhoukoudian Site Museum, and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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10506 - Paleontology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Quaternary Science Reviews

ISSN

0277-3791

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

199

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1 November

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

1-17

Kód UT WoS článku

000448493900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85053532052