Reports
Program No.17-009
Morphological Studies on Orangutan Fossils from Southeast Asia and
Miocene Hominoids
KUNIMATSU Yutaka
Period of visit: 16th Octorber,2005-20th November,2005
National Museum of Natural History in Leiden
In Thailand, I participated in the International Symposium on Southeast
Asian Primate Research "Biodiversity Study from DNA to
Ecosystem", and gave an oral presentation on the recent discoveries
of Miocene hominoid fossils in this country. In the Netherlands, I visited
the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, where a large number of
fossils that Eugene Dubois collected in Indonesia many decades ago are
stored. I examined the orangutan fossils in this Dubois collection, which
were discovered from a few cave sites in Sumatra. In Germany, I visited
the Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, and observed the orangutan fossils, as
well as some human and gibbon fossils, which were collected by G. H. R.
von Koenigswald in Java. In Greece, I observed the fossils of Greek
Miocene hominoid Ouranopithecus macedoniensis stored at Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, and compared them with large-bodied Miocene
hominoids from Kenya, East Africa. During my stay, I had several
opportunities to discuss with Prof. Koufos the relationships between
Eurasian and African Miocene hominoids.
National Museum of Natural History in Leiden
Frankfurt Senckenberg Institute
Dubois Collection (National Museum of Natural History in Leiden)
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