| Chinese orangutan Temporal range:
66,000–57,000 years ago | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Primates |
| Suborder: | Haplorhini |
| Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
| Family: | Hominidae |
| Genus: | Pongo |
| Species: | †P. weidenreichi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pongo weidenreichi Hooijer, 1948
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| Synonyms | |
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P. hooijeri Schwartz, Long, Cuong, Kha & Tattersall, 1995 | |
The Chinese orangutan (Pongo weidenreichi) is an extinct species of orangutan from the Pleistocene of South China and possibly Southeast Asia. It is known from fossil teeth found in the Sanhe Cave,[1][2] and Baikong, Juyuan and Queque Caves in Chongzuo, Guangxi.[3] Its dental dimensions are 20% bigger than those of living orangutans.[4] The youngest remains of the species date to between 66,000-57,000 years ago in Yincun Cave, Guangxi.[5] An isolated canine from Thẩm Khuyên Cave, Vietnam, and a fourth premolar from Pha Bong, Thailand, could possibly be assigned to Gigantopithecus, though these could also represent Pongo weidenreichi.[6] Two possible teeth previously attributed to Gigantopithecus from the Late Pleistocene deposit from Vietnam has been subsequently suggested to represent P. weidenreichi instead.[7]
- ^ Wang, Cui-Bin; Zhao, Ling-Xia; Jin, Chang-Zhu; Wang, Yuan; Qin, Da-Gong; Pan, Wen-Shi (December 2014). "New discovery of Early Pleistocene orangutan fossils from Sanhe Cave in Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China". Quaternary International. 354: 68–74. Bibcode:2014QuInt.354...68W. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.020.
- ^ Harrison, Terry; Zhang, Yingqi; Yang, Liyun; Yuan, Zengjian (December 2021). "Evolutionary trend in dental size in fossil orangutans from the Pleistocene of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China". Journal of Human Evolution. 161: 103090. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.103090. PMID 34781087. S2CID 244106641.
- ^ Harrison, Terry; Jin, Changzhu; Zhang, Yingqi; Wang, Yuan; Zhu, Min (December 2014). "Fossil Pongo from the Early Pleistocene Gigantopithecus fauna of Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China". Quaternary International. 354: 59–67. Bibcode:2014QuInt.354...59H. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.01.013.
- ^ Lehman, Shawn M.; Fleagle, John G. (24 May 2006). Primate Biogeography: Progress and Prospects. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-387-29871-9. Retrieved 21 March 2022.
- ^ Liao, Wei; Harrison, Terry; Yao, Yanyan; Liang, Hua; Tian, Chun; Feng, Yuexing; Li, Sheng; Bae, Christopher J.; Wang, Wei (September 2022). "Evidence for the latest fossil Pongo in southern China". Journal of Human Evolution. 170: 103233. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103233. PMID 36030625. S2CID 251879262.
- ^ Zhang, Y.; Harrison, T. (2017). "Gigantopithecus blacki: a giant ape from the Pleistocene of Asia revisited". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 162 (S63): 153–177. doi:10.1002/ajpa.23150. PMID 28105715.
- ^ Yingqi, Z. "Review and perspective of the ninety years in quest of Gigantopithecus blacki". Acta Anthropologica Sinica. 43 (6): 1006–1026. doi:10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2024.0094.