Where: Tanzania (3.2° S, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 34.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• The main part of the locality exposes the Upper Laetolil Beds between Tuffs 5 and 7.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collected by T. Harrison, Laetoli Project in 1998-2005

• Repository: National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam

Primary reference: F. T. Krell and W. Schawaller. 2011. Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). In T. Harrison (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context. Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna 535-548 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130018: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Raghav Sehtia on 04.07.2012

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