Victoriapithecus macinnesi (Victoriapithecidae)



Victoriapithecus macinnesi 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 Victoriapithecus macinnesi
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Majiwa about 2km north of Maboko Island sites, on main- land Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 138, Majiwa, Majiwa Bluff,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: equivalent in age to Maboko sites (14-16 Ma); overlying Kisumu Phonolite dated by K/Ar at 12.3 +/- 0.02 My radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: silty conglomerates
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Equatorius africanus
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - surface "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 890, Kiboko, Maboko Island - surface,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds and silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Limnopithecus legetet
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - surface "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 890, Kiboko, Maboko Island - surface,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds and silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Limnopithecus legetet
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm. "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 891, Kiboko, Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm.,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds, silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Limnopithecus legetet
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm. "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 891, Kiboko, Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm.,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds, silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Limnopithecus legetet
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Majiwa Majiwa bluffs are on the mainland N of Maboko Is. Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 892, Majiwa,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = ~17 Ma based on biostratigraphy. Min age = 11.8 +/- 1.0 my (K/Ar date on Majiwa phonolite) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "silts, calcretes, and silty conglomerates"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Equatorius africanus
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Main Locality, Maboko Island (Bed 3) "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 899, Quarry 1, Kiboko, Maboko Island - Bed 3
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 14.71 +/- .16 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy). radiometric intage_min greenish-yellow sandy clay underlain by mottled brown and white bentonite
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Equatorius africanus
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Main Locality, Maboko Island (Bed 3) "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 899, Quarry 1, Kiboko, Maboko Island - Bed 3
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 14.71 +/- .16 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy). radiometric intage_min greenish-yellow sandy clay underlain by mottled brown and white bentonite
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Equatorius africanus
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - Bed 5 "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 900, Maboko Island - Bed 5,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie Kommentar z. Taxonomie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 14.71 +/- .16 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy). radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: indurated white clay with vertisol development overlain by a less-compact brown clay JA: the main reference for this collection is unclear; it was originally uploaded as being tied to Harrison 1989 (ETE ref 1032, PaleoDB ref 5308), but is definitely not discussed in this paper, so it may be unpublished
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Nyanzapithecus pickfordi
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - Bed 3 or 5 "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 901, Kiboko, Maboko Island - Bed 3 or 5,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min "63 or 5" ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: green-yell sandy clay (Bed 3)&indurated white clay w/vertisol develoverlain by less compact bown clay (Bed 5)
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - Quarry 2 "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 902, Maboko Island - Quarry 2,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: pebbly mudstones with matrix-supported pebbles which have been altered to clay
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Limnopithecus legetet
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation Kommentar zur Sammlung
Maboko Island - Maboko fm. "Island in Winam Gulf, L. Victoria." Langhian
zwischen 13.82 und 15.97 Millionen Jahren
Maboko ETE Locality 903, Kiboko, Maboko Island - Maboko fm.,
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds and silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Equatorius africanus
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter
Moroto II (UPE collections) five nearby "fossilferous exposures" from "12 km north of Moroto Mountain, east Uganda" (Pickford et al. 2003) coordinate is for the primate locality that yields most of the new collections -
zwischen 11.61 und 23.03 Millionen Jahren
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie Kommentar z. Taxonomie
Age constrained by being within Brachyodus range see comment on Moroto II concerning age assignment Moroto II and II fauna are Early Miocene–Middle Miocene in age (Pickford et al. 2003; Grossman et al. 2014; Pickford et al. 2017) the fluvial sediments include argillites, silts, and conglomerates List also records fossils collected from Moroto II prior to 1985; prior occurrences not recorded in the taxonomic list include: Lanistes carinatus and Hominoid
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Kogolepithecus morotoensis

Literatur

P. Andrews, G. E. Meyer, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1981, The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy, and palaeontology. Journal of Human Evolution. 10, p. 35 - 48, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
M. Pickford, G. E. Meyer, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1982, New Higher Primate Fossils from the Middle Miocene Deposits at Majiwa and Kaloma, Western Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 58, p. 1 - 19, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
B. R. Benefit, M. L. McCrossin, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1989, New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 18, p. 493 - 497, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
T. Harrison, M. L. McCrossin, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1989, A new species of Micropithecus from the middle Miocene of Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 18:6, p. 537 - 557, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
C. S. Feibel, F. H. Brown, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1991, Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 21:6, p. 221 - 225, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
M. L. McCrossin, F. H. Brown, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1992, New species of bushbaby from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 89:6, p. 215 - 233, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
M. Pickford, F. H. Brown, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1992, Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II. 315:11, p. 1419 - 1424, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
M. L. McCrossin, F. H. Brown, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1992, New species of bushbaby from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 89:11, p. 215 - 233, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
A. J. Winkler, F. H. Brown, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, J. A. H. Van Couvering 1997, Systematics, Paleobiogeography, and Paleoenvironmental Significance of Rodents from the Ibole Member, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London. :11, p. 311 - 332, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3
M. Pickford, B. Senut, D. Gommery, E. Musiime 2003, New Catarrhine fossils from Moroto II, Early Middle Miocene (ca 17.5 Ma) Uganda. Comptes Rendus Palevol. 2:8, p. 649 - 662, DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(81)80024-3