Post by surroundx on Oct 15, 2016 9:48:49 GMT
Several extinct (sub)species of Orangutan are known from China to Java, at least some of which survived until the Late Pleistocene/Holocene (assuming that they're valid taxa).
References:
Bacon, Ann-Marie and Long, Vu The. (2016). The first discovery of a complete skeleton of a fossil orang-utan in a cave of the Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam. Journal of Human Evolution 41: 227–241.
Kahlke, H. D. (1972). A Review of the Pleistocene History of the Orang-Utan (Pongo Lacépède 1799). Asian Perspectives 15(1): 5-14.
References:
Bacon, Ann-Marie and Long, Vu The. (2016). The first discovery of a complete skeleton of a fossil orang-utan in a cave of the Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam. Journal of Human Evolution 41: 227–241.
Kahlke, H. D. (1972). A Review of the Pleistocene History of the Orang-Utan (Pongo Lacépède 1799). Asian Perspectives 15(1): 5-14.
