Maboko Island - surface, Kenia


Fundort: Maboko Island - surface, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Victoriapithecus macinnesi aus der Familie Victoriapithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, dating method: composite, age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min, rock type adj: ., lithology comments: "massive muds and silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 13,82 und 15,97 Millionen Jahre aus der Maboko Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Langhian / Langhian / Maboko
Koordinaten: 0° 9 ' 57 '' N, 34° 37 ' 1 '' O

Literatur

B. R. Benefit, M. L. McCrossin 1989, New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution. 18, p. 493 - 497

Systematik