Beticha, Äthiopien


Fundort: Beticha, Äthiopien, Oromya, Äthiopien
Taxon: Chororapithecus abyssinicus
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, "underlain by a conspicuous rhyolitic ignimbrite, previously dated to 10.7 ± 0.2 (20) or 11.0 ± 0.45 (17) by the K-Ar method" and "overlain by resistant pyroclastic flow deposits dated by the K-Ar method to 10.10 ± 0.30 Ma" (= MN 9), "silty to sandy conglomerate beds, including paleosol horizons with root casts and calcite concretions"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 9,7 und 11,1 Millionen Jahre aus der Chorora Formation in Äthiopien
Geologie, Sratigraphie Tortonian / MN 9 / Chorora
Koordinaten: 8° 52 ' 0 '' N, 40° 17 ' 59 '' O

Literatur

G. Suwa, R. T. Kono, S. Katoh, B. Asfaw, Y. Beyene 2007, A new species of great ape from the late Miocene epoch in Ethiopia. Nature. 448, p. 921 - 924, DOI: 10.1038/nature06113

Systematik