Eckfeld Maar (NHMM collection), Deutschland


Fundort: Eckfeld Maar (NHMM collection), Deutschland, Eifel, Deutschland
Taxon: Europolemur klatti aus der Familie Notharctidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, The Eifel is the German part of the outcropping Variscan Basement west of the river Rhine and nort of the river Mosel. "MP 13... recently dated at 44.3 +/- 0.4 million years BP (Mertz et al. 2000)" (Franzen 2004), ...laminitic "oilshales" and siltstones... with frequent turbiditic intercalations... plant macrofossils are ... distributed throughout the sequence under investigation. ... coarse and robust plant debris such as wood fragments and large fruits/seeds is concentrated in the turbiditic layers. (Wilde and Frankenhauser 1998).
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 40,4 und 48,6 Millionen Jahre aus der Eifel Formation in Deutschland
Geologie, Sratigraphie Ypresian, Lutetian, Bartonian / MP 13 / Eifel
Koordinaten: 50° 5 ' 59 '' N, 6° 50 ' 24 '' O

Literatur

J. L. Franzen 2004, First fossil primates from Eckfeld Maar, Middle Eocene (Eifel, Germany). Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae. 97:2, p. 213 - 220

Systematik