The tooth surfaced in 2011 in a box that had never been unpacked or studied since it was shipped from China in the 1920s.
Two Chinese palaeontologists, Liu Wu and Tong Haowen from the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing have now examined the tooth and it has at last been described in the journal Acta Anthropologica Sinica.
They …
