Andrahomana Cave (2002-2003 collections), Madagaskar


Fundort: Andrahomana Cave (2002-2003 collections), Madagaskar, Toliara, Madagaskar
Taxon: Hadropithecus stenognathus aus der Familie Archaeolemuridae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, 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

Literatur

L. 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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