Prohylobates simonsi (Victoriapithecidae)



Prohylobates simonsi ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Victoriapithecidae, die ab dem Neogen (Miozän) im Aquitanium lebte, das vor rund 23 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 20,4 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Prohylobates simonsi
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Jabal Zaltan 15 km west of Zaltan and 6 km east of Ora Burdigalian
zwischen 15.97 und 23.03 Millionen Jahren
Marada Gebel Zelten
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie
The Marada Formation represents a single depositional cycle that has evolved through transgression, still-stand, and regressive eustatic events that were overprinted by minor basinal tecton- ics. The terminal phase of the regressive events was marked by development of an unconformity that extends throughout north- east Africa (El-Hawat, 1980). Mastera (1985) divided the Marada Formation into two members: the Aquitanian–Burdigalian Garat Jahanam Member and the Aquitanian–Serravallian Ar-Rahlah Member, but ostracod faunas indicated a younger age for the upper part of the formation, extending it to the Tortonian age (Gammudi, 1996).

Literatur

E. R. Miller, B. R. Benefit, M. L. McCrossin, J. M. Plavcan, M. G. Leakey, A. N. El-Barkooky, M. A. Hamdan, M. K. Abdel Gawad, S. M. Hassan, E. L. Simons 2009, Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution. 57, p. 195 - 211, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.006