East Turkana - Area 8 - Okote - KNM-ER 42703, Kenia


Fundort: East Turkana - Area 8 - Okote - KNM-ER 42703, Kenia, , Kenia
Taxon: Homo habilis aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, From "between the Lower Ileret Tuff [1.527 +/- 0.14 Myr] and the Chari Morutot Tuff [1.383 +/- 0.028 Myr]" and estimated to be 1.44 +/- 0.01 Myr based on interpolation, Hominid specimen was "coated in carbonate matrix, on the brown mudstone and sandstone sequences" (illustrated as sandy mudstone in a stratigraphic section)
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 1,806 und 2,588 Millionen Jahre aus der Koobi Fora Formation in Kenia
Geologie, Sratigraphie Gelasian / Gelasian / Koobi Fora
Koordinaten: 4° 16 ' 1 '' N, 36° 17 ' 31 '' O

Literatur

F. Spoor, M. G. Leakey, P. N. Gathogo, F. H. Brown, S. C. Antón, I. McDougall, C. Kiarie, F. K. Manthi, L. N. Leakey 2007, Implications of new early Homo fossils from Ileret, east of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Nature. 448, p. 688 - 691

Systematik