East Turkana - Area 130- KBS- FxJj38E, Kenia


Fundort: East Turkana - Area 130- KBS- FxJj38E, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Paranthropus boisei 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 Ma (Base of Okote Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating) Datum is plane is Sheet Sandstone. Section extends from 0 to -4 meters below datum plane., Matrix of coarse sands, gravels, and fine tuffaceous silt, in which large carbonate concretions had grown to from a caliche horizon comprised of a lobate network.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,781 und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Koobi Fora Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Gelasian, Calabrian / Gelasian / 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