Djebel el Kébar, Tunesien


Fundort: Djebel el Kébar, Tunesien, Sidi Bouzid Township, Tunesien
Taxon: Amamria tunisiensis
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Late middle Eocene (Bartonian). Dated at ~39.5 Ma by radiometric K-Ar analyses performed on grains of glauconite extracted from the glauconitic clays embedding the fossils of KEB-1
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 38, und 41,3 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Tunesien
Geologie, Sratigraphie Bartonian / Bartonian /
Koordinaten: 35° 0 ' 0 '' N, 9° 48 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

L. Marivaux, E. M. Essid, W. Marzougui, H. Ammar, S. Adnet, B. Marandat, G. Merzeraud, R. Tabuce, M. Vianey-Liaud 2014, A Morphological Intermediate Between Eosimiiform and Simiiform Primates From the Late Middle Eocene of Tunisia: Macroevolutionary and Paleobiogeographic Implications of Early Anthropoids. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 154, p. 387 - 401

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