East Turkana - Area 8A - General, Kenia


Fundort: East Turkana - Area 8A - General, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Theropithecus oswaldi aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, dating method: absolute, age comment: max = KBS Tuff (1.88+-.02ma). min = top of Chari Member (.74 +-.01ma) see McDougall abd Brown 2006 for detailed breakdown of 40Ar/39Ar dated tuff layers in Koobi Fora Formation.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,781 und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Koobi Fora Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Gelasian, Calabrian / Gelasian / Koobi Fora
Koordinaten: 4° 15 ' 29 '' N, 36° 16 ' 59 '' O

Literatur

M. G. Leakey 1982, Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 58, p. 153 - 172

Systematik