Asiadapis cambayensis (Notharctidae)



Asiadapis cambayensis ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Notharctidae, die ab dem Paläogen (Eozän) im Ypresium lebte, das vor rund 56 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 47,8 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Asiadapis cambayensis
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation
Vastan Lignite Mine Vastan Lignite Mine, Taluka Mangrol, District Surat, Gujarat, India; about 3 km northeast of the village Nani Naroli Ypresian
zwischen 47.8 und 56 Millionen Jahren
Cambay Shale
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie Kommentar z. Taxonomie
age based on Nummulites burdigalensis, which implies Shallow Benthic Zone 10 according to Bajpai et al, and SBZ 10-11 according to Rose et al. most small and large mammals are from two different, immediately superposed beds above Lignite 2 and at the base of the estuarine cycle 1, low in the section, but additional mammals are from supratidal deposits well above the highest lignite at the top of cycle 6 (Rose et al. 2009) alternate dark grey carb. shale & greenish black shale/marl or (according to Rose et al. 2006) "dark, organic-rich, clayey silt at the contact between a marine shelly layer, containing shark and fish remains, and a continental clay layer" or (according to Rose et al. 2009) "smaller terrestrial vertebrates... come from a thin lens (<0.5 m thick) of dark, clayey silt and shale with abundant plant matter... Approximately 1-2 m higher is a dark clay zone that has produced larger mammals" Rose et al. list four insectivores sensu lato that may or may not be the same as those described by Bajpai et al.: ? Cimolestidae (said to be new), ? Adapisoriculidae (said to be new), a larger insectivore, and ? Erinaceomorpha
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Marcgodinotius indicus

Literatur

K. D. Rose, R. S. Rana, A. Sahni, T. Smith 2007, A new adapoid primate from the early Eocene of India. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan. 31:14, p. 379 - 385