Question

You’ve discovered a new site in southern Kenya, that you think might be about 1 Ma. You look around for a bit and recover fossils of Deinotherium boszai, Giraffa stillei, Parmularius altidens,Beatragus antiquus, Eurygnathohippus sp., and Kolpochoerus heseloni. What’s the best approximate age for the site?

Answer 1

The safest guess before making an examination would be somewhere between 2 and 2,5 million years ago. Considering when all of this species roamed the African continent, this is a very safe age if you are guessing, because all of these species were existent in this time frame, and also represented with solid amount of individuals.