Napak (Napak Member), Uganda
Fundort: | Napak (Napak Member), Uganda, , Uganda | |
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Taxon: | Lomorupithecus harrisoni | |
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
Macrofossils,mesofossils, "localities I, IV, V, and IX are intercalated with volcanic tuffs... and biotites from these tuffs at Napak I have produced dates of 19.5 +/- 2 Ma and 18.3 +/- 0.4 Ma" after being "adjusted for new constants" but "the younger date is discrepantly low" so an age of "between 19 and 20 Ma" (i.e., Burdigalian) is favored (Rossie and MacLatchy 2006) | ||
Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 15,97 und 20,44 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Uganda | |
Geologie, Sratigraphie | Burdigalian / Burdigalian / | |
Koordinaten: | 2° 4 ' 59 '' N, 34° 13 ' 59 '' O | |
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturJ. B. Rossie, L. MacLatchy 2006, A new pliopithecoid genus from the early Miocene of Uganda. Journal of Human Evolution. 50:5, p. 568 - 586 |
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