摘要
在两次发掘(1973年冬和1977年冬)浙江省余姚县河姆渡新石器遗址时,都发现了犀类亚化石。一些科学家对此很重视。裴文中教授看了第一次发掘的标本后,曾多次强调这是对考古和地层古生物有重要意义的发现,一再嘱咐要着重研究和论述。
Some rhinoceros subfossils were collected from Fourth Layers of cultural deposit at Hemudu neolithic site in Yuyao county, Zhejiang province. On according to cranial and dental characters they belong to two species: Didermocerus sumatrensis and Rhinoceros sondaicus. The materials provide following meanings: 1. The neolithic site or Holocene sedimentary strata in China bears rhinoceros fossils, more than single species or genus. 2. It gives an objective reality that rhinoceros had lived in ancient time of China. So called "Water rhinoceros" and "Mountain rhinoceros" in historical bibliography were possibly be both the D. sumatrensis and R. soundaicus. 3. It indicates the climate had been getting warmer since Late glacial and the rhinoceros migrated northward, which had lived in Hemudu circa 7000 years B. P., thereafter, the D. sumatrensis proceeded northward on 3 degrees latitude and lived in 33°N., met up the south border of the R. tichorhinus distribution in Late pleistocene. Judging by the ecological habits of the rhiroceros and the palaeovegetation the year's mean temperature was higher than 4°—5℃ in the Hemudu region during 6000—7000 years B. P., it was a well warm stage.
出处
《古脊椎动物学报》
1983年第2期160-165,185-186,共8页
Vertebrata Palasiatica
