ABSTRACT
At present no fewer than 200 localities in China have been found to produce significant quantities of Pleistocene mammalian fossils. In an effort to provide a basic synopsis of China’s Quaternary mammalian faunas, we have selected for discussion a series of 27 assemblages that may be taken as representative of the broader range of fossil materials known. Each of the assemblages included here has been derived from a locality of particular human palaeontological or archaeological interest and as such constitutes an important basis for both palaeoenvironmental and chronological interpretations.
