East Turkana - Area 1 - KBS - KNM-ER 42700, Kenia
Fundort: | East Turkana - Area 1 - KBS - KNM-ER 42700, Kenia, , Kenia | |
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Taxon: | Homo erectus aus der Familie Hominidae | |
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
Macrofossils, From "1.5 m below the Main Ileret Caliche" (boundary between the KBS and Okote members) above the KBS Tuff (1.869 +/- 0.021 Myr) and below the Lower Ileret Tuff (1.527 +/- 0.14 Myr), but much closer to the latter and well above an ash correlated with a Shungura Formation ash that is just above the Morutot Tuff (1.607 +/- 0.019 Myr); estimated age 1.55 +/- 0.01 "assuming constant sedimentation rates", Hominid specimen was "fully embedded in a matrix of coarse sandstones and carbonates... 1.5 m below the Main Ileret Caliiche" ("carbonates" probably refers to carbonate concretions shown at this level in a figure) | ||
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° 18 ' 28 '' N, 36° 16 ' 30 '' O | |
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturF. Spoor, M. G. Leakey, P. N. Gathogo, F. H. Brown, S. C. Antón, I. McDougall, C. Kiarie, F. K. Manthi, L. N. Leakey 2007, Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature. 448, p. 688 - 691 |
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