Olduvai Gorge (Pleistocene of Tanzania)
Where: Arusha, Tanzania (3.0° S, 35.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 35.1° E)
When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• FLK North 1 - Max Date Straigraphy
•FLK NN1 - Min Date Stratigraphy
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
• None provided, however "screen washing" was used to extract fossils, so one can infer that the sediment was lithified.
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: G. F. Gunnel, P. M. Butler, M. Greenwood and N. B. Simmons. 2015. Bats (Chiroptera) from Olduvai Gorge, early Pleistocene, Bed I (Tanzania). American Museum Novitates 3846:1-35 [M. Uhen/R. Yoder/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197250: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Richard Yoder on 26.10.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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