Olorgesailie - KNM-OL 45500 Hominin Site, Kenia
Fundort: | Olorgesailie - KNM-OL 45500 Hominin Site, Kenia, , Kenia | |
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Taxon: | Homo erectus aus der Familie Hominidae | |
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Between Member 5 and Member 7 age estimated at 0.97 to 0.90 m.y. based on date of 0.974 Ma for underlying Member 5, and location of Brunhes/Matuyama boundary in lower Member 8, "poorly sorted sandy silt that contained angular volcanic sand... [hominin fossil] rested on well-sorted silt of an underlying paleosol." | ||
Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 0,126 und 0,781 Millionen Jahre aus der Olorgesailie Formation in Kenia | |
Geologie, Sratigraphie | Middle Pleistocene / Middle Pleistocene / Olorgesailie | |
Koordinaten: | 1° 34 ' 35 '' S, 36° 24 ' 44 '' O | |
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturR. Potts, A. K. Behrensmeyer, A. Deino, P. Ditchfield, J. Clark 2004, Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology. Science. 305, p. 75 - 78 |
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