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Lufengpithecus and Hominoid Phylogeny

Problems in Delineating and Evaluating Phylogenetically Revelant Characters

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Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils

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Abstract

In the 1970s, the first specimens of the large-bodied hominoid now referred to as Lufengpithecus lufengensis (Fig. 1) were discovered in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan, at the Shihuiba colliery site, which lies 9 km north of the town of Lufeng. The site, which is characterized by lignite deposits, is late Miocene (ca. 8 Ma) and thus approximately coeval with Sivapithecus sites in Turkey (Andrews and Tekkaya, 1980) and Indo-Pakistan (Pilbeam, 1982) and perhaps a few million years younger than the Dryopithecus sites in Hungary (Kordos, 1987; Kretzoi, 1975) and Spain (Moyà-Solà and Köhler, 1993).

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    Carol V. Ward

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Schwartz, J.H. (1997). Lufengpithecus and Hominoid Phylogeny. In: Begun, D.R., Ward, C.V., Rose, M.D. (eds) Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils. Advances in Primatology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0075-3_17

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