FLKI-Level 15 (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Also known as ETE Locality 1456, Site 41e, Frida Leakey Korongo, Arch#44, Geol loc.45, FLKI-Level 15,

Where: Tanzania (3.0° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 35.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olduvai Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max=1.798+/-.004(Tuff IB)min=1.749+/-.007(Tuff IF) radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: lacustrine

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "lrg salne,alklne lk,estrn margn"
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: clayey

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Primary reference: M. D. Leakey. 1971. Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 3 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22616: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.06.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Kobus sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941 antelope
cf. Connochaetes sp. Lichtenstein 1812 wildebeest
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: maryanus
Adenota
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"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki Schwartz 1932