The Lang Trang is a cave formation located in
Vietnam
Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
.
Palaeontological
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remains found in the cave date from the
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene ( , often referred to as the ''Ice age'') is the geological Epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations. Before a change was fina ...
period.
See also
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List of fossil sites
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Further reading
* (1993); ''Wildlife of Gondwana''. Reed.
* (1996)
"The fossil mammal fauna of the Lang Trang caves, Vietnam, compared with Southeast Asian fossil and recent mammal faunas: the geographical implications" ''Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association'', Vol. 14.
Cenozoic paleontological sites of Asia
Caves of Vietnam
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