{
  "citation": "Specimen Registry v0.0.7 (2026). Maintained by Michael Gonzalez with AI assistance. https://specimenregistry.org. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0.",
  "license": "https://specimenregistry.org/license",
  "version": "0.0.12-neon",
  "specimen": {
    "id": "xiahe-mandible",
    "site_id": "baishiya-karst-cave",
    "common_name": "Xiahe mandible",
    "community_name": null,
    "catalog_number": "(extract from paper Methods)",
    "catalog_number_source_quote": null,
    "material_type": "mandible (right half, robust morphology; two intact molars in situ)",
    "taxonomic_assignment": "Denisovan",
    "taxonomic_assignment_source_quote": "Here we report a Denisovan mandible, identified by ancient protein analysis, found on the Tibetan Plateau in Baishiya Karst Cave, Xiahe, Gansu, China.",
    "assignment_method": null,
    "assignment_publication": "10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x",
    "provenance_publication": null,
    "stratigraphic_context": {
      "raw": "Baishiya Karst Cave, Xiahe County, Gansu Province, China; Tibetan Plateau; altitude 3280 m; specimen ex situ (originally donated by a Tibetan Buddhist monk in 1980; found intact in the cave)."
    },
    "stratigraphic_context_source_quote": null,
    "current_custody": "Lanzhou University, Institute for Tibetan Plateau Research (verify)",
    "inferred_fields": null,
    "disputed_assignment": false,
    "verification_state": "pending-verification",
    "verification_notes": "\n\nEditorial pass 2026-07-26: source-locked quote attached from ingest; ready for founder eyeball review against paper PDF.",
    "fts_tsv": "'denisovan':3B 'half':6C 'institut':16C 'intact':10C 'lanzhou':14C 'mandibl':2A,4C 'molar':11C 'morpholog':8C 'plateau':19C 'research':20C 'right':5C 'robust':7C 'situ':13C 'tibetan':18C 'two':9C 'univers':15C 'verifi':21C 'xiah':1A",
    "created_at": "2026-07-26T18:01:51.160Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-26T18:17:01.609Z"
  },
  "site": {
    "id": "baishiya-karst-cave",
    "name": "baishiya-karst-cave",
    "country": "China",
    "region": "Tibetan Plateau",
    "latitude": "35.450000",
    "longitude": "102.570000",
    "coordinates_precision": "1km",
    "site_type": "karstic cave (high-altitude, 3280 m ASL)",
    "excavating_institution": null,
    "notes": null,
    "verification_state": "pending-verification",
    "created_at": "2026-07-26T18:01:51.160Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-26T18:17:01.609Z"
  },
  "analyses": [
    {
      "id": "40a36c7c-4041-444d-9a57-ed971ec0a8ad",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x",
      "method": "paleoproteomics",
      "dating_method": null,
      "lab": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig / University of Copenhagen (verify author affiliations)",
      "analysis_date": "2018-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "result_summary": "Denisovan-specific amino-acid substitutions identified via mass-spectrometric analysis of dentine proteins. First Denisovan specimen outside Denisova Cave and Baishiya's later cognate specimens.",
      "result_summary_source_quote": null,
      "verification_state": "draft"
    },
    {
      "id": "44fc9629-5c1e-4c85-aa51-a7be21229202",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/s41586-019-1139-x",
      "method": null,
      "dating_method": null,
      "lab": "Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig / University of Copenhagen (verify author affiliations)",
      "analysis_date": "2018-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
      "result_summary": "Denisovan-specific amino-acid substitutions identified via mass-spectrometric analysis of dentine proteins. First Denisovan specimen outside Denisova Cave and Baishiya's later cognate specimens.",
      "result_summary_source_quote": null,
      "verification_state": "draft"
    }
  ],
  "comparisons": []
}