East Turkana - Kapthurin fm., Kenia


Fundort: East Turkana - Kapthurin fm., Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Theropithecus oswaldi aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, dating method: composite, age comment: Max age=.78 Ma;Min age=.25+/- .12 Ma (K/Ar dates from tuff K4) radiometric intage_min Detailed tephrochronology reports can be found in Blegen et al. 2018 (A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa, Journal of Human Evolution) supporting Middle–Late Pleistocene age for the Kapthurin Fm., rock type adj: 0, lithology comments: coarsely-bed blder conglm>fn-gned volc tuffs
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,0117 und 0,781 Millionen Jahre aus der Kapthurin Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Middle Pleistocene, Late Pleistocene / Middle Pleistocene / Kapthurin
Koordinaten: 0° 30 ' 0 '' N, 36° 0 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

L. E. Frostick, I. Reid 1986, Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern Kenya. Geological Society of America Special Publication. 25, p. 113 - 125

Systematik