Rutana (Pleistocene of Burundi)

Where: Burundi (3.9° S, 30.0° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 29.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "From the surface of the ironstone of the middle Pleistocene peneplain"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected by P. Van den Brande

• Repository: Musée du Congo Belge, Tervuren

Primary reference: P. Basilewsky. 1951. Loges fossiles de Coprophages. Bulletin & Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 87:26-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 209722: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

 Ichnofossils -
Coprinisphaera sp. Sauer 1955