Proconsul meswae (Proconsulidae)



Proconsul meswae ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Proconsulidae, die ab dem Paläogen (Oligozän) im Chattium lebte, das vor rund 28,1 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 23 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Proconsul meswae
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation
Meswa Bridge locality 36 Near Muhoroni in the Tinderet region of western Kenya exact coordinate given by Harrison and Andrews 2009 Chattian
zwischen 23.03 und 28.1 Millionen Jahren
Muhroni Agglomerates
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie Kommentar z. Taxonomie
Pickford and Andrews provide radiometric dates for the Muhoroni Agglomerate: 23.5 and 23.6 Ma which they say is Miocene. Harland et al. 1989 place those ages in the late Oligocene. Muhoroni Agglomerates are volcanic deposits near a vent above base level. Contemporary channel filled with unbedded partly calcified sandstone. "The Muhoroni Agglomerates are fine to coarse pyroclastic sands with gneissic cobbles and boulders up to 1 m in size, into which ephemeral channels were cut... The deposits range from off-white to yellow and pale brown, and they are at least 10 m in thickness and weakly bedded... Fossil root casts, leaves, and wood are common in the sediments, but vertebrate remains are rare... The channel [yielding the fossils] was filled with unbedded, partially calcified sandstone..." (Harrison and Andrews 2009) wood and leaves also mentioned

Literatur

T. Harrison, P. Andrews 2009, The anatomy and systematic position of the early Miocene proconsulid from Meswa Bridge, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 56:5, p. 479 - 496, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.02.005