East Turkana - Area 8 - Okote - KNM-ER 42703, Kenia
Fundort: | East Turkana - Area 8 - Okote - KNM-ER 42703, Kenia, , Kenia | |
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Taxon: | Homo habilis aus der Familie Hominidae | |
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
Macrofossils, From "between the Lower Ileret Tuff [1.527 +/- 0.14 Myr] and the Chari Morutot Tuff [1.383 +/- 0.028 Myr]" and estimated to be 1.44 +/- 0.01 Myr based on interpolation, Hominid specimen was "coated in carbonate matrix, on the brown mudstone and sandstone sequences" (illustrated as sandy mudstone in a stratigraphic section) | ||
Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 1,806 und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Koobi Fora Formation in Kenia | |
Geologie, Sratigraphie | Gelasian / Gelasian / Koobi Fora | |
Koordinaten: | 4° 16 ' 1 '' N, 36° 17 ' 31 '' 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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