Fundstelle Upper Herto Member near Bouri, Äthiopien - Evolution der Primaten - biologie-seite.de

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Upper Herto Member near Bouri, Äthiopien

Fundort:	Upper Herto Member near Bouri, Äthiopien, , Äthiopien
Taxon:	Homo sapiens aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, "bentonite tuff... usually located within 1 m below the the Upper/Lower Herto contact... yields an 40Ar/39Ar age of 260 +/- 16 [1 s.d.] thousand years; "two pumice clasts" from member dated at 163 +/- 3 and 162 +/- 3 kyr, respectively" (anorthoclase), and a third at "226 +/- 2 kyr" (sanidine); "Two obsidian clasts from the same sands" dated at 160 +/- 2 kyr; all of the pumice and obsidian dates are maximum estimates; the overlying WAVT tuff is correlated geochemically with a tuff below the Konso Silver Tuff, which is dated at 154 +/- 7 kyr (sanidine), Member consists of "fluvial and lake-margin deposits of coarse beach and yellow sandstone... Abundant archaeological and faunal remains are embedded in a sand unit at the base of the Upper Herto Member... [it is] a [fluviatile] volcaniclastic sandstone and gravel deposit that yielded all of the Herto hominid fossils and all of the Upper Herto Member archaeological assemblages... variable in thickness, yellow-brown to grey, and cross-bedded, bearing abundant rolled pumices up to 15 cm in diameter."
Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle:	zwischen 0,126 und 0,781 Millionen Jahre aus der Bouri Formation in Äthiopien
Geologie, Sratigraphie	Middle Pleistocene / Middle Pleistocene / Bouri
Koordinaten:	10° 0 ' 0 '' N, 40° 30 ' 0 '' O
Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz

Literatur J. D. Clark, Y. Beyene, G. WoldeGabriel, W. K. Hart, P. R. Renne, H. Gilbert, A. Defleur, G. Suwa, S. Katoh, K. R. Ludwig, J.-R. Boisserie, B. Asfaw, T. D. White 2003, Stratigraphic, chronological and behavioural contexts of Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia. Nature. 423, p. 747 - 752
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