Meswa Bridge locality 36, Kenia
| Fundort: | Meswa Bridge locality 36, Kenia, , Kenia | |
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| Taxon: | Proconsul meswae aus der Familie Proconsulidae | |
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
| Macrofossils,mesofossils, 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) | ||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 23,03 und 28,1 Millionen Jahre aus der Muhroni Agglomerates Formation in Kenia | |
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Chattian / Chattian / Muhroni Agglomerates | |
| Koordinaten: | 0° 8 ' 13 '' N, 35° 12 ' 20 '' O | |
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturT. 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 |
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Systematik |