Andrahomana Cave (historical collections), Madagaskar
| Fundort: | Andrahomana Cave (historical collections), Madagaskar, Toliara, Madagaskar | |
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| Taxon: | Archaeolemur majori aus der Familie Archaeolemuridae | |
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: | ||
| Macrofossils, Sediments are from "a large collapsed-cave feature in Pleistocene eolianite (calcareous sandstone)" (Godfrey et al. 2006), and the lower unit yielding extinct vertebrates is stratigraphically mixed and "mid-to-late Holocene" (Burney et al. 2008), "an upper unit, generally 10-20 cm thick, of brown humic silty sand" contains extant taxa and "a much thicker lower unit, of ca. 1 m to <3m thicknes, or coarser, lighter-colored sands" includes the extinct taxa | ||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 0, und 0,0117 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Madagaskar | |
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Holocene / Holocene / | |
| Koordinaten: | 25° 11 ' 54 '' S, 46° 37 ' 59 '' O | |
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturL. R. Godfrey, W. L. Jungers, D. A. Burney, N. Vasey, Ramilisonina, W. Wheeler, P. Lemelin, L. J. Shapiro, G. T. Schwartz, S. J. King, M. F. Ramarolahy, G. F. N. Randria 2006, New discoveries of skeletal elements of Hadropithecus stenognathus from Andrahomana Cave, southeastern Madagascar. Journal of Human Evolution. 51:4, p. 395 - 410, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.04.012 |
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