Lufeng, Section D, Layer 5, China


Fundort: Lufeng, Section D, Layer 5, China, Yunnan, China
Taxon: Laccopithecus robustus aus der Familie Pliopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, Time: upper Miocene, equivalent to Turolian, 7-8 Myr, Gray, uniform and pure fine sand with intercalations or lenses of black carbonaceous clay and lignite. The colour of the sand becomes darker from top to bottom. There are a lot of shell fragments of molluscs and quartz pebbles (1-2 cm). Thickness 1,5-2,5 m.
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 5,333 und 8,7 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in China
Geologie, Sratigraphie Tortonian, Messinian / Turolian /
Koordinaten: 25° 0 ' 59 '' N, 102° 3 ' 59 '' O

Literatur

R. Wu, Y. Pan 1985, A new Adapid Primate from the Lufeng Miocene, Yunnan. Acta Anthropologica Sinica (Renleixue xuebao). 4:1, p. 1 - 6

Systematik