East Turkana - Area 130- KBS- FxJj38SE, Kenia


Fundort: East Turkana - Area 130- KBS- FxJj38SE, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Homo habilis aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, Maximum age= 1.88 Ma (KBS Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating); Minimum age= 1.64 +/- 0.03 (Base of Okote Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating) Datum plane is the sheet sandstone. Section extends to -4 meters below datum plane., A matrix of coarse sands, gravels, and fine tuffaceous silt, in which large carbonate concertions had grown to form a caliche horizon comprised of a lobate network.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,781 und 1,806 Millionen Jahre aus der Koobi Fora Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Calabrian / Calabrian / Koobi Fora
Koordinaten: 4° 10 ' 59 '' N, 36° 25 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

H. T. Bunn 1997, The bone assemblages from the excavated sites. Koobi Fora Research Project: Plio-Pleistoene Archaeology. 5, p. 402 - 458

Systematik