Tham Khuyen, Vietnam


Fundort: Tham Khuyen, Vietnam, Lang Son, Vietnam
Taxon: Pongo pygmaeus aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, From "Two distinct breccia layers, a lower light red unit and an overlying darker red one... the darker one [contains] most of the fossil vertebrate remains... there is no sharp discontinuity between the layers, which were deposited during the same period... faunal analyses... suggest a late middle Pleistocene age (probably around 300-250 Ka) for the entire contained mammalian assemblage", "heavily calcified breccias that are rich in fossil bone and teeth" including "cobbles and small boulders"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,126 und 0,781 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Vietnam
Geologie, Sratigraphie Middle Pleistocene / Middle Pleistocene /
Koordinaten: 21° 57 ' 0 '' N, 106° 22 ' 0 '' O

Literatur

J. H. Schwartz, T. H. Vu, L. C. Nguyen, K. T. Le, I. Tattersall 1994, A diverse hominoid fauna from the late middle Pleistocene breccia cave of Tham Khuyen, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History. 73, p. 1 - 11

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