Nakwai TOP-73, Kenia


Fundort: Nakwai TOP-73, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Alophia metios
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, Estimated age of ~22.2 Ma based on combination of magnetostratigraphy bracketed by dated ashes, Channel complexes composed of sandstones and conglomerates with frequent cross-bedding alternating with fine-grained floodplain deposits. Fossils said to occur in all lithologies
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 15,97 und 23,03 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Aquitanian, Burdigalian / Early Miocene /
Koordinaten: 2° 30 ' 14 '' N, 35° 56 ' 39 '' O

Literatur

D. T. Rasmussen, A. R. Friscia, M. Gutierrez, J. Kappelman, E. R. Miller, S. Muteti, D. Reynoso, J.B. Rossie, T. L. Spell, N. J. Tabor, E. Gierlowski-Kordesch, B. F. Jacobs, B. Kyongo, M. Macharwas, F. Muchemi 2019, Primitive Old World monkey from the earliest Miocene of Kenya and the evolution of cercopithecoid bilophodonty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116:13, p. 6051 - 6056, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1815423116

Systematik