Olorgesailie - Upper Member 1, Kenia


Fundort: Olorgesailie - Upper Member 1, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Theropithecus oswaldi aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, "fine silt-sized grains, clay-sized particles in cutans of a weakley-modified soil, and fine sand. This is underlain by white laminated to massive diatomaceous siltstone" (Potts 1994) "yellow-brown to buff-white, rootmarked siltstone, typically 10-20cm thick ranging up to 120cm thick" (Potts 1999)
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,0117 und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Olorgesailie Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Gelasian, Calabrian, Middle Pleistocene, Late Pleistocene / Pleistocene / Olorgesailie
Koordinaten: 1° 34 ' 14 '' S, 36° 26 ' 15 '' O

Literatur

R. Potts 1994, Variables versus models of early Pleistocene hominid land use. Journal of Human Evolution. 27, p. 7 - 24

Systematik