Where: Lang Son, Vietnam (22.0° N, 106.4° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° N, 106.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• from "Two distinct breccia layers, a lower light red unit and an overlying darker red one... the darker one [contains] most of the fossil vertebrate remains... there is no sharp discontinuity between the layers, which were deposited during the same period... faunal analyses... suggest a late middle Pleistocene age (probably around 300-250 Ka) for the entire contained mammalian assemblage"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithified, shelly/skeletal, red breccia
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. K. Le, V. B. Tran in 1965, 1966
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical,
• collected by "a joint Vietnamese and German (DDR) group... Blocks... were removed... using hammers and chisels, following which manual preparation of the specimens was completed in the laboratories of the Institute of Archaeology in Hanoi"
Primary reference: R. Ciochon, V. T. Long, R. Larick, L. González, R. Grün, J. De Vos, C. Yonge, L. Taylor, H. Yoshida and M. Regan. 1996. Dated co-occurrence of Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus from Tham Khuyen Cave, Vietnam. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 93:3016-3020 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 92781: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.11.2009, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Stegodon orientalis" = Stegodon insignis2
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"Hylobates cf. concolor" = Nomascus concolor2
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Langsonia liquidens n. gen. n. sp.1
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Homo sp.2, Homo erectus, Pongo sp.2, Pongo pygmaeus2, Pongo hooijeri n. sp.1, Gigantopithecus blacki2
Homo erectus Dubois 1892 human |