Khoratpithecus ayeyarwadyensis Site, Myanmar


Fundort: Khoratpithecus ayeyarwadyensis Site, Myanmar, , Myanmar
Taxon: Khoratpithecus ayeyarwadyensis aus der Familie Hominidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, "between 10.4 and 8.8 Ma" (chrons C5n to C4n or Tortonian) based on biochronology and normal polarity of the nearby MFI 89 section, Formation includes "yellow to brownish coarse cross-bedded sandstones with interstratified ferruginous conglomerates, claystones, hardened fine sandstones and red soil horizons"
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 7,246 und 11,62 Millionen Jahre aus der Irrawaddy Formation in Myanmar
Geologie, Sratigraphie Tortonian / Tortonian / Irrawaddy
Koordinaten: 20° 7 ' 0 '' N, 95° 7 ' 59 '' O

Literatur

J.-J. Jaeger, A. N. Soe, O. Chavasseau, P. Coster, E.-G. Emonet, F. Guy, R. Lebrun, A. A. Maung, H. Shwe, S. T. Tun, K. L. Oo, M. Rugbumrung, H. Bocherens, M. Benammi, K. Chaivanich, P. Tafforeau, Y. Chaimanee 2011, First Hominoid from the Late Miocene of the Irrawaddy Formation (Myanmar). PLoS One. 6:4, p. 1 - 14, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017065

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