Noropithecus bulukensis (Victoriapithecidae)



Noropithecus bulukensis ist eine Primatenart innerhalb der Familie Victoriapithecidae, die ab dem Neogen (Miozän) im Aquitanium lebte, das vor rund 23 Millionen Jahren begann und bis vor 20,4 Millionen Jahren andauerte.

Fundorte

Systematik

Daten zu den einzelnen Funden von Noropithecus bulukensis
Sammlung Kommentar zum Fundort Epoche, Alter Geologie, Formation
Buluk Leakey and Walker (1985) give the same coordinate and say the main locality is a "small exposure" although the original list pertained to an area of "2-3 square miles" Burdigalian
zwischen 15.97 und 23.03 Millionen Jahren
Bakate
Kommentar z. Stratigraphie Lithographie
"K/Ar dates on a basalt just above the fossiliferous sediments show that the fossils are older than 17.2 Myr" (Leakey and Walker 1985); fossils are from about 15 m within the ~50 m thick Buluk Member according to McDougall and Watkins 1985, who report a series of dates, of which one of 17.2 +/- 0.2 Ma for an immediately overlying basalt is favored "coarse silt" (Harris and Watkins 1974) or "claystones with coarse sandstone and conglomerate channel fills" (Leakey and Walker 1985)
U.a. am Fundort ausgegraben: Micropithecus clarki

Literatur

E. R. Miller, B. R. Benefit, M. L. McCrossin, J. M. Plavcan, M. G. Leakey, A. N. El-Barkooky, M. A. Hamdan, M. K. Abdel Gawad, S. M. Hassan, E. L. Simons 2009, Systematics of early and middle Miocene Old World monkeys. Journal of Human Evolution. 57, p. 195 - 211, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.06.006