Huanglong Cave, China


Fundort: Huanglong Cave, China, Hubei, China
Taxon: Macaca mulatta aus der Familie Cercopithecidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils,mesofossils, Local section has five layers, and "All the seven hominin teeth, all the stone artifacts and most of the animal fossils are derived from Layer 3" U-series dates from two rhinoceros teeth and stalagmites range from 79.4 +/- 6.3 ka to 103.7 +/- 1.6 ka but there is also an ESR date on a rhino tooth of 34.78 to 44.18 ka, "Red silt clay layer... Two thin flowstone layers developed with a break. Below the flowstone layers there are isolated stalagmites which have no direct connection with the flowstone layer"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 0,0117 und 0,126 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in China
Geologie, Sratigraphie Late Pleistocene / Late Pleistocene /
Koordinaten: 33° 8 ' 3 '' N, 110° 13 ' 4 '' O

Literatur

W. Liu, X. Wu, S. Pei, X. Wu, C. J. Norton 2009, Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China. Quaternary International. , p. , DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.06.017

Systematik