Miocene Habitats of Proconsul on Rusinga Island

本研究的主要目的是利用 来了解一种最著名的 一种叫做原执政猿的早期猿类化石，大约有1700万年的历史， 肯尼亚鲁辛加岛。 总督属于一个古老的群体， 猴猿（原猴科），被广泛认为是 类人猿和早期人类祖先 （Australiopithecines）。 猿类化石沿着发现于 其他哺乳动物化石埋在河流序列的土壤中 存款 有些化石是精致的头骨， 这些四肢不可能被运送到 动物生活的地方。 在埋藏的各种土壤中 在这些河流沉积物中，普罗康索一直被发现在 一种被掩埋的土壤。 显微镜和化学研究 这项建议旨在确定究竟是什么类型的 这些土壤是在它们形成的时候，因此在马赛克中， 普罗康 居住

The primary objective of this research is use the evidence of buried soils to understand the habitat of one of the best known early fossil apes called Proconsul some 17 million years old from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Proconsul belonged to an archaic group of monkey-apes (proconsulids) widely considered ancestral to both the great apes and to early human ancestors (australiopithecines). The fossil apes are found along with other mammal fossils in soils buried within a sequence of river deposits. Some of the fossils are delicate skulls and articulated limbs that could not have been transported far from where the animals lived. Of the various kinds of soils buried within these stream deposits, Proconsul is consistently found in one kind of buried soil. The microscopic and chemical studies of this proposal are aimed at determining exactly what kinds of soils these were when they formed, and thus where in the mosaic of vegetation Proconsul lived.