East Turkana - Area 130- KBS- FxJj38SE, Kenia
Fundort: | East Turkana - Area 130- KBS- FxJj38SE, Kenia, , Kenia | |
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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 | |
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturH. T. Bunn 1997, The bone assemblages from the excavated sites. Koobi Fora Research Project: Plio-Pleistoene Archaeology. 5, p. 402 - 458 |
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