East Turkana - Kapthurin fm., Kenia
Fundort: | East Turkana - Kapthurin fm., Kenia, , Kenia | |
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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 | |
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturL. 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 |
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