Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm., Kenia


Fundort: Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm., Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Nyanzapithecus pickfordi aus der Familie Proconsulidae
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, 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

M. Pickford 1992, Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II. 315:11, p. 1419 - 1424

Systematik