Procynocephalus wimani (Cercopithecidae)



Procynocephalus wimani ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Cercopithecidae, die ab dem Quartär (Pleistozän) im Gelasium lebte, das vor rund 2,6 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 1,8 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Procynocephalus wimani
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter
Zhongdian "from the central part of the Hengduan Mountain ranges in northwestern Yunnan Province" and shown on a map as at a single site near Zhongdian: coordinate based on Zhongxin a.k.a. Zhongdian Calabrian
zwischen 0.78 und 2.59 Millionen Jahren
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
local section has four units, and my rusty Chinese suggests that all the fossils are from the lowest, which is 1.3 m thick based on scanning the characters in the description, sandstone is present and mud, silt, gravel, and limestone are all absent

Literatur

X.-P. Ma, G. Li, F. Gao, Y.-L. Sun, L. Zheng 2004, New early Pleistocene mammalian materials from Zhongdian, Yunnan Province, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 42:3, p. 246 - 258