Shenxian Cave, Huifeng Mountain, Lishui County, China


Fundort: Shenxian Cave, Huifeng Mountain, Lishui County, China, Jiangsu, China
Taxon: Homo sapiens aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, Upper part Radiocarbon date of 11200 +/- 1000 or 9250 +/- 1000 BC has been yielded., Red-brown sandy clay, not lithified, no layering, occasionally some calcareous breccia, some quartzicic pebbles and fragments of drop stone. The fossils and fragments of coal are scattered around in this layer (1,5-2,5 m in thickness). At the bottom of this layer there is a hardground of drop stone, about 10 cm thick. At some places there is 20 cm of clay between these two layers. In the drop stone have been found fossils, too.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0, und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in China
Geologie, Sratigraphie Gelasian, Calabrian, Middle Pleistocene, Late Pleistocene, Holocene / Pleistocene /
Koordinaten: 31° 38 ' 60 '' N, 119° 1 ' 11 '' O

Literatur

Y. Li, C. Lei 1980, Fossil animals discovered in Shenxian [Fairies'] Cave, Lishui County, Jiangsu Province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica (=Gujizhui Dongwu yu Gurenlei). 18:1, p. 59 - 64

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