Kathwanga, Kenia


Fundort: Kathwanga, Kenia, Rusinga Island, Kenia
Taxon: Proconsul africanus aus der Familie Proconsulidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, dating method: absolute, age comment: Kisingiri sequence deposited during an interval of less than 0.5 million years and c. 17.8 Ma ago. radiometric intage_min, rock type adj: tuffaceous, lithology comments: also clay; carbonate-rich; "red bed in upper part of Kathwanga Series"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 15,97 und 20,44 Millionen Jahre aus der Hiwegi Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Burdigalian / Burdigalian / Hiwegi
Koordinaten: 0° 24 ' 0 '' N, 34° 9 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

K. C. Beard, M. F. Teaford, A. Walker 1986, New wrist bones of Proconsul africanus and P. nyanzae from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Folia Primatologica. 47, p. 97 - 118

Systematik