Benson's Site, Kenia
| Fundort: | Benson's Site, Kenia, Rift Valley, Kenia | |
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| Taxon: | Kamoyapithecus hamiltoni | |
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
| Macrofossils,mesofossils, Originally interpreted as late Oligocene in age, based on biostratigraphic correlation of its mammalian fauna (Rasmussen and Gutierrez, 2009). More recently, the site was radiometrically dated to approximately 22 Ma (earliest Miocene) by Rasmussen et al. (2019). | ||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 20,44 und 23,03 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Kenia | |
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Aquitanian / Aquitanian / | |
| Koordinaten: | 2° 19 ' 48 '' N, 35° 50 ' 59 '' O | |
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturD. T. Rasmussen, M. Gutierrez 2009, A Mammalian Fauna from the Late Oligocene of Northwestern Kenya. Palaeontographica Abteilung A. 288:1-3, p. 1 - 52 |
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