Tham Khuyen, Vietnam


Fundort: Tham Khuyen, Vietnam, Lang Son, Vietnam
Taxon: Homo erectus aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, From "Two distinct breccia layers, a lower light red unit and an overlying darker red one... the darker one [contains] most of the fossil vertebrate remains... there is no sharp discontinuity between the layers, which were deposited during the same period... faunal analyses... suggest a late middle Pleistocene age (probably around 300-250 Ka) for the entire contained mammalian assemblage", "heavily calcified breccias that are rich in fossil bone and teeth" including "cobbles and small boulders"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,126 und 0,781 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Vietnam
Geologie, Sratigraphie Middle Pleistocene / Middle Pleistocene /
Koordinaten: 21° 57 ' 0 '' N, 106° 22 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

R. Ciochon, V. T. Long, R. Larick, L. González, R. Grün, J. De Vos, C. Yonge, L. Taylor, H. Yoshida, M. Regan 1996, Dated co-occurrence of Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus from Tham Khuyen Cave, Vietnam. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 93, p. 3016 - 3020

Systematik