East Turkana - Area 10 - General, Kenia


Fundort: East Turkana - Area 10 - General, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Theropithecus oswaldi aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, dating method: absolute, age comment: KBS Tuff and top of Chari member McDougall and Brown, 2006: Feldspars from pumice clasts in about 15 tephra within the stratigraphic interval from the KBS Tuff to the Silbo Tuff have yielded precise ages that allow much finer definition of the numerical time framework for the sedimentary sequence between the KBS Tuff (1.869 +/- 0.021 Ma) and the Chari Tuff (1.383 +/- 0.028 Ma), rock type adj: ., lithology comments: .
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° 17 ' 60 '' N, 36° 19 ' 30 '' O

Literatur

J. M. Harris 1983, Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom. 2, p.

Systematik