Birket Qarun 2, Ägypten


Fundort: Birket Qarun 2, Ägypten, , Ägypten
Taxon: Afradapis longicristatus
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, "183 m below the contact of the Qasr el Sagha and Jebel Qatrani formations... This horizon was recently placed in the lowermost (Umm Rigl) Member of the Qasr el Sagha Formation, but renewed work indicates that these fossiliferous alluvial sediments are lithologically distinctive and best retained in the Birket Qarun Formation"; according to Seiffert et al. 2005 the fossilferous beds are "229 m below Quarry L-41," "about 5 to 15 cm thick," and based on new paleomagnetic data within C17n.1n and "earliest Priabonian", "bioclastic ironstone conglomerate" (Seiffert et al. 2003) or "ironstone-rich fining upward sequences of medium-to-fine grained sands and muds"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 33,9 und 38, Millionen Jahre aus der Birket Qarun Formation in Ägypten
Geologie, Sratigraphie Priabonian / Priabonian / Birket Qarun
Koordinaten: 29° 36 ' 0 '' N, 30° 36 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

E. R. Seiffert, J. M. G. Perry, E. L. Simons, D. M. Boyer 2009, Convergent evolution of anthropoid-like adaptations in Eocene adapiform primates. Nature. 461, p. 1118 - 1121, DOI: 10.1038/nature08429

Systematik