Also known as ETE Locality 540, Moroto Mountain

Where: Uganda (2.5° N, 34.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.0° N, 32.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: MN 2 (22.4 - 20.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0

•"Fossils have been found at a number of horizons" that are "overlain by a fine-grained basalt that presumably flowed down an ancient channel" and is 40Ar/39Ar dated at "more than 20 Ma" although "isotopic disturbance" makes an exact date impossible; however, a basalt overlying Moroto I is 40Ar/39Ar dated at 20.61 +/- 0.05 Ma [= MN 2] and "it is likely that the basalts represent the same flow" (Gebo et al. 1997)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; medium-grained sandstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. W. Bishop in 1961

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 104, ; ETE museum list:

•Uganda Museum and Makerere University College collections

Primary reference: W. W. Bishop and J. D. Clark. 1965. Background to Evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 21722: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.08.1995, edited by John Alroy

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