Middle Silts/Gravels mbr., Kenia


Fundort: Middle Silts/Gravels mbr., Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Chlorocebus aethiops aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, dating method: composite, age comment: Max age = .78 Ma;Min age = .25 +/- .12 Ma radiometric intage_min Detailed tephrochronology reports can be found in Blegen et al. 2018 (A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa, Journal of Human Evolution) supporting Middle–Late Pleistocene age for the Kapthurin Fm. , rock type adj: 0, lithology comments: light-br prly-strat slts w/thin grav horiz
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,0117 und 0,781 Millionen Jahre aus der Kapthurin Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Middle Pleistocene, Late Pleistocene / Middle Pleistocene / Kapthurin
Koordinaten: 0° 30 ' 0 '' N, 36° 0 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

M. Pickford 1988, Geology and fauna of the middle Miocene hominoid site at Muruyur,Baringo District,Kenya. Human Evolution. 3:5, p. 381 - 390

Systematik