1980年11月4日下午4时35分,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所、安徽省文物工作队、和县文物工作组联合发掘队,在安徽省和县陶店龙潭洞发现一具完整的猿人头盖骨、一枚门齿、六枚半臼齿、一个左下颌骨,还有几块头顶骨碎片化石和一些角,骨器及三十余种动物化石(哺乳类约25种),各报刊曾先后作了报导,发掘者黄万波同 At 4:35 on November 4, 1980, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Anhui Provincial Cultural Relics Task Force, and the County Cultural Relics Work Team jointly excavated the team and found a A complete ape skull, a incisor, six semi-molar, a left mandible, and a few pieces of fossilized head fossils and some horns, bone and more than thirty species of animal fossils (mammals about 25 species), the press Has been made one after another, excavator Huang Wanbo same