Discovery of a Stegodon–Ailuropoda assemblage in a cave of northern Thailand (Ban Fa Suai, Chiang Dao)
Zeitoun Valéry, A. Seveau, H. Forestier, H. Thomas, A. Lenoble, F. Laudet, P.-O. Antoine, Régis Debruyne, L. Ginsburg, P. Mein, C. Winayalai, N. Chumdee, T. Doyasa, A. Kijngam, S. Nakbunlung.
Comptes Rendus Palevol 2005, 4(3):255-264.
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2004.11.013

Abstract

The Cave of the Monk from the village of Ban Fa Suai is an original site discovered by the Thai French Palaeosurvey during one of its field campaign looking for the remains of the first humans in northern Thailand. Preliminary data from geological, palaeontological and technolithic domains of this site are presented in this paper. Focusing on taphonomy it is an opportunity to describe evidence of a Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna in a karstic context and the occurrence of Hoabinhian stone tools assemblages in a stacked overlain fossil gallery. The Cave of the Monk is a typical sample for several areas of South-East Asia. Sixteen families, 25 genus and 38 species of Mammals have been identified among the dental remains collected by procupines. The technological analysis shows that the lithic tools are similar to those originating from Indonesia. (c) 2005 Academie des sciences. Publie par Elsevier SAS. Tous droits reserves.

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Molecular phylogeny of living elephants and discussion on infraspecific systematics of Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus.
Régis Debruyne.
in ‘The world of elephants’, Proceedings of the 1st international Congress, 2001. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, pp.628-629.

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This poster communication displays the results of the phylogenetic analyses of new sequencing data from three mitochondrial markers (Cytochrome b, 12S ribosomal DNA and control region genes) among African (both bush and forest forms) and Asian elephants (of every subspecies). Maximum Parsimony (MP) procedure with equal and differential weighting and Maximum Likelihood (ML) analyses were applied to these data sets. To estimate the robustness of MP topologies, Bremer supports and Bootstrap proportions (excluding uninformative sites) were both calculated. Though evolving at different rates, the three markers studied are homogeneous and; depict a shared pattern of differentiation within every species of elephants, the robustness of which increases when data are combined. Within Asian elephants, this pattern accords neither with the geographic distribution nor with the systematic frame. On the contrary, a split between Loxodonta africana africana (bush form) and Loxodonta africana cyclotis (forest form) is recognized although none of these two subspecies is found to be monophyletic.

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1. Debruyne, 2005. A case study of apparent conflict between molecular phylogenies: the interrelationships of African elephants. Cladistics 21(1):31-50
2. Vaughan et al., 2005. On the Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Genus Oryza. Breeding Science 55:113-122
3. Rautian et al., 2006. Approaches to the resolution of contradictions between phylogenetic reconstructions based on morphofunctional and genetic data. Paleontological Journal 40(4):s508-s523
4. Vaughan, 2008. Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Genus Oryza. in ‘Rice Biology in the Genomics Era’. pp219-234