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我国发现了一个八百万年前的古猿头骨化石。这个重大的发现是由中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所和云南博物馆联合组成的考察队在云南省禄丰县石灰坝发掘的。它是迄今世界上所发现的晚中新世到早上新世(距今大约一千五百万年到七百万年)各类古猿中的第一个猿头骨。这个古猿头骨被埋在褐煤层里。由于沉积环境的影响,头骨化石十分酥脆,几乎一碰即碎,经考察队员细心的发掘和修理,除颅顶
My country found a paleobot skull eight million years ago. This major discovery was jointly discovered by the expedition of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Yunnan Museum in Limefeng Dam, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province. It is by far the world’s first ape skull among all kinds of paleontologists from the Late Miocene to the Early Pliocene (about 15 million to 7 million years ago). This ape skull is buried in lignite. Due to the depositional environment, skull fossils are very crisp, almost touched that is broken, carefully exhumed by the expedition team and repair, in addition to the top of the skull