Quarry L-41 (Jebel Qatrani Formation), Ägypten


Fundort: Quarry L-41 (Jebel Qatrani Formation), Ägypten, Fayum, Ägypten
Taxon: Anchomomys milleri aus der Familie Notharctidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, "more likely" represents Chron 13r and therefore is "very latest Eocene in age" (Gunnell et al. 2008); Rupelian age after Coster et al. (2012), Chron 13R is Oligocene not Eocene, Lithologic description based on direct observation by data enterer. Said to be a "green shale" or "green clay" by Simons (1989)
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 28,1 und 33,9 Millionen Jahre aus der Jebel Qatrani Formation in Ägypten
Geologie, Sratigraphie Rupelian / Rupelian / Jebel Qatrani
Koordinaten: 29° 30 ' 0 '' N, 30° 30 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

E. L. Simons 1997, Discovery of the Smallest Fayum Egyptian Primates (Anchomomyini, Adapidae). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 94:1, p. 180 - 184

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