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Affiliations

• ¹ Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; Sino-Danish Center, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
• ² Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China.
• ³ Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710054, China.
• ⁴ School of History and Culture, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030006, China.
• ⁵ Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. Electronic address: fuqiaomei@ivpp.ac.cn.