Panda - Stegodon fauna group picture!

What a nice display!  Nice finds as well

Good lord, you can just pick up handfuls??  Is there a current consensus on how all these teeth (etc) got into the caves?  Hard to see how stegodon bits are assorting with deer and pigs!   Any additional evidence on hyaenas being the primary collectors?  Water and humans always possible, and my favorite "all of the above" if you pick the right millennium.   Is Gigantopithecus rare everywhere it's known?  So many missing pieces to that puzzle.

1 hour ago, Jaybot said:

What a nice display!  Nice finds as well

Thank you so much! The credit all goes to my mom who carved out the silhouettes of these teeth on the black sponge background and inserted these teeth in:)

5 hours ago, Philip Rutter 2 said:

Good lord, you can just pick up handfuls??  Is there a current consensus on how all these teeth (etc) got into the caves?  Hard to see how stegodon bits are assorting with deer and pigs!   Any additional evidence on hyaenas being the primary collectors?  Water and humans always possible, and my favorite "all of the above" if you pick the right millennium.   Is Gigantopithecus rare everywhere it's known?  So many missing pieces to that puzzle.

It is indeed very abundant. The Panda-Stegodon fauna ranges from Southern China to Southeast Asia but I believe the most fossiliferous locations are still in the Guangxi and Guizhou provinces of Southern China.

Reasons for these teeth being in the caves:

1. Carried by underground waters

2. Animal seeking shelter in here but ended up getting trapped

3. Most importantly, it's difficult for these to fossilize outside, where they can be destroyed by other animals/microorganisms/weathering. Inside the caves the temperature would be quite stable and if there are less bats, there are relatively less amount of bacteria. 

Most southern Chinese caves are limestone caves, meaning that the bones get eroded but the teeth crowns are heavily calcitized and look quite awesome when placed above a flashlight.

And yes, GIgantopithecus is extremely rare. You could even consider the Guangxi and Guizhou provinces as places where it's most abundant. Even still, it rarely turns up.

Cool frame!!!

I have a display case with teeth of reptiles and fish from the Mesozoic and Paleogene. Maybe I'll post a photo on the forum someday when I have time to write a description for everyone. My laptop is broken, which makes it more difficult to complete my work. And I would also like to include the tooth of the megalosaur that I would like to buy.

Nice finds! And nice display frame as well!

-Cal