Nsungwe 2B, Tansania
| Fundort: | Nsungwe 2B, Tansania, Mbeya, Tansania | |
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| Taxon: | Rukwapithecus fleaglei | |
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
| Macrofossils, Situated 30m above the contact between the Utengule and Songwe members of the Nsungwe Formation. The age of the fossil-bearing unit is tightly constrained between two volcanic tuffs dated by U-Pb CATIMS (U-Pb chemical abrasion thermal ionizationmass spectrometry) geochronology at 25.237 and 25.214 Myr ago, Pale green, mediumgrained, matrixsupported tuffaceous (bentonitic) sandstone with ash and clay pebble clasts | ||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 23,03 und 28,4 Millionen Jahre aus der Nsungwe Formation in Tansania | |
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Rupelian, Chattian / Late Oligocene / Nsungwe | |
| Koordinaten: | 8° 54 ' 0 '' S, 33° 27 ' 0 '' O | |
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturN. J. Stevens, E. R. Seiffert, P. M. O'Connor, E. M. Roberts, M. D. Schmitz, C. Krause, E. Gorscak, S. Ngasala, T. L. Hieronymus, J. Temu 2013, Palaeontological evidence for an Oligocene divergence between Old World monkeys and apes. Nature. 497, p. 611 - 614 |
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