Anjohingidrobe Cave, Madagaskar


Fundort: Anjohingidrobe Cave, Madagaskar, Beanka, Madagaskar
Taxon: Propithecus deckenii aus der Familie Indriidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils, Because the cave is predominantly vertical, with no large areas of horizontal or near-horizontal floor, it was necessary to distinguish bone accumulations in and near the cave by separate sublocation numbers, rather than a grid reference. These are noted in Figure 2, and Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of each sublocation. ABG-1 is the sediment layer immediately east of the cave entrance. Where this rock wall enfolds to produce a small alcove, surface material and sediments were sublocated as AGB-1A. Proceeding into the main cave, a small ledge on the east wall inside is covered with a slope of fine debris (ABG-2). Directly below on the cave floor, a dead-end chamber descends farther under the east wall and is partially filled with soft clay sediment (AGB-3). Returning to the entrance, small pockets of bone-rich debris and sediment have accumulated at the base of the 3.8 m entrance drop, in a series of steps downward (AGB-4, AGB-5, and AGB-6). Immediately below AGB-5 and AGB-6 on the southward slope going back into the cave is a larger area of uneven topography, composed of large stones interspersed with bone-rich debris and sediment. This is the very productive sublocation AGB-7. Beneath the uneven floor of the cave near the entrance, there is a small chamber containing sediments with bones (AGB-8). On the opposite (west) wall of the cave, the cave floor descends to its lowest depth below the entrance at −7 m. There is a lag concentrate of darkly stained bones and fine limestone chips in this deepest pocket, in places lightly cemented into a breccia (AGB-9). Note: The authors do not distinguish the various specimens per sublocation, so they are all included in the same collection PBDB entry
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0, und 0,0117 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Madagaskar
Geologie, Sratigraphie Holocene / Holocene /
Koordinaten: 17° 53 ' 60 '' S, 44° 29 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

D. A. Burney, H. Andriamialison, R. A. Andrianaivoarivelo, S. Bourne, B. E. Crowley, E. J. de Boer, L. R. Godfrey, S. M. Goodman, C. Griffiths, O. Griffiths, J. P. Hume, W. G. Joyce, W. L. Jungers, S. Marciniak, G. J. Middleton, K. M. Muldoon, E. Noromalala, V. R. Pérez, G. H. Perry, R. 2019, Subfossil lemur discoveries from the Beanka Protected Area in western Madagascar. Quaternary Research. , p. 1 - 17, DOI: 10.1017/qua.2019.54

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