Also known as ETE Locality 890, Kiboko, Maboko Island - surface,
Where: Kenya (0.2° N, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 32.9° E)
When: Maboko Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Primary reference: B. R. Benefit and M. L. McCrossin. 1989. New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 18:493-497 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22069: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 24.02.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Indet. Mollusca ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
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Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
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Reptilia | |
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Varanidae indet. Hardwicke and Gray 1824 monitor lizard ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Varanidae
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Mammalia | |
Dorcatherium chappuisi Arambourg 1933 chevrotain
Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth 1958 chevrotain | |
Climacoceras africanus MacInnes 1936 even-toed ungulate | |
Brachypotherium heinzelini rhinoceros
Dicerorhinus sp. Gloger 1841 rhinoceros | |
Kenyalagomys sp. MacInnes 1953 pika | |
Zenkerella sp. Matschie 1898 flightless scaly-tailed squirrel | |
Megapedetes sp. MacInnes 1957 springhare | |
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Victoriapithecus sp., "Victoriapithecus macinnesi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi, "Victoriapithecus leakeyi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi
Victoriapithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1969 monkey
"Victoriapithecus macinnesi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969 monkey
"Victoriapithecus leakeyi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969 monkey | |
Limnopithecus legetet, "Ramapithecus wickeri" = Sivapithecus
Limnopithecus legetet Hopwood 1933 ape
"Ramapithecus wickeri" = Sivapithecus ape | |
Prodeinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911 deinothere | |
"Pachyhyrax championi" = Afrohyrax championi
"Pachyhyrax championi" = Afrohyrax championi Arambourg 1933 hyrax | |
Amphibia | |
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