Buluk, Kenia
| Fundort: | Buluk, Kenia, , Kenia | |
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| Taxon: | Noropithecus bulukensis aus der Familie Victoriapithecidae | |
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
| Macrofossils, "K/Ar dates on a basalt just above the fossiliferous sediments show that the fossils are older than 17.2 Myr" (Leakey and Walker 1985); fossils are from about 15 m within the ~50 m thick Buluk Member according to McDougall and Watkins 1985, who report a series of dates, of which one of 17.2 +/- 0.2 Ma for an immediately overlying basalt is favored, "coarse silt" (Harris and Watkins 1974) or "claystones with coarse sandstone and conglomerate channel fills" (Leakey and Walker 1985) | ||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 15,97 und 23,03 Millionen Jahre aus der Bakate Formation in Kenia | |
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Aquitanian, Burdigalian / Early Miocene / Bakate | |
| Koordinaten: | 4° 16 ' 0 '' N, 36° 35 ' 59 '' O | |
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturE. R. Miller, B. R. Benefit, M. L. McCrossin, J. M. Plavcan, M. G. Leakey, A. N. El-Barkooky, M. A. Hamdan, M. K. Abdel Gawad, S. M. Hassan, E. L. Simons 2009, Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution. 57, p. 195 - 211, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.006 |
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