Also known as ETE Locality 1148, Karonga - Unit 3A,
Where: Malawi (9.8° S, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 10.0° S, 34.7° E)
When: Chiwondo Formation, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Max age = 8.6;Min age=3.76-2.0 Ma for Unit 3A
Environment/lithology: lagoonalgraded
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 926, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), UCMP: University of California Museum of Paleontology, Berkeley
Primary reference: T. G. Bromage, F. Schrenk, and Y. M. Juwayeyi. 1995. Paleobiogeography of the Malawi Rift: Age and vertebrate paleontology of the Chiwondo Beds, northern Malawi. Journal of Human Evolution 28:37-57 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 22324: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hippotragini indet., Megalotragus isaaci, Connochaetes gentryi, Aepyceros sp., Kobus patulicornis, "Tragelaphus aff. angasi" = Tragelaphus angasii, Ugandax sp.
Megalotragus isaaci Harris 1991 antelope
Connochaetes gentryi Harris 1991 wildebeest
Aepyceros sp. Sundevall 1847 impala
Kobus patulicornis antelope
"Tragelaphus aff. angasi" = Tragelaphus angasii Gray 1849 nyala ETE occurrence; species: mak - species name from unique name
Ugandax sp. Cooke and Coryndon 1970 antelope | |
Notochoerus capensis, "Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus, Metridiochoerus andrewsi, "Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti
Notochoerus capensis Broom 1925 pig
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog
Metridiochoerus andrewsi Hopwood 1926 pig
"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti Leakey 1943 pig | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki, Loxodonta adaurora
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Gazella vanhoepeni | |
"Gazella aff. vanhoepeni" = Phenacotragus vanhoepeni
"Gazella aff. vanhoepeni" = Phenacotragus vanhoepeni Wells and Cooke 1956 ETE occurrence; species: mak - species name from unique name
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