Plesiadapis walbeckensis (Plesiadapidae)



Plesiadapis walbeckensis ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Plesiadapidae.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Plesiadapis walbeckensis
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter
Walbeck (Weferlingen) north of Walbeck near Weferlingen (G.H. Bachmann, 2008, p. 336 in Bachmann (ed.): Geologie von Sachsen Anhalt) coordinate is based on village of Walbeck Selandian
zwischen 59.2 und 61.6 Millionen Jahren
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
"?upper Middle Paleocene (?MP 5, BiochroM'97, 1997)" = ? Selandian thought by Gingerich (1976) on the basis of Plesiadapis walbeckensis to be "correlated somewhere between the Ples. anceps and Ples. rex zones" (i.e., middle Tiffanian) Infill of 14 m deep, N-S trending karstic fissure in late Early Triassic marly limestones (Lower Muschelkalk), consisting of mud (weathering remnant of the limestones) in the upper part and Early Oligocene marly sand including reworked Paleocene fossils in the lower part (Bachmann, 2008).
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Saxonella crepaturae

Literatur

P. D. Gingerich 1976, Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology. 15, p. 1 - 141