Also known as ETE Locality 655, Land Surface 7, Olorgesailie - DE/89 B, Tr. Tr. B 4,
Where: Kenya (1.6° S, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 36.4° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: 7 Member (Olorgesailie Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: silty sandstone
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Primary reference: C. P. Koch. 1986. The Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Olorgesailie Formation (Middle Pleistocene, Kenya). [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 21837: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.03.1996, edited by Victoria Egerton
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
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Reptilia | |
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile | |
Mammalia | |
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Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran | |
Elephas sp., "Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Hippopotamidae indet. Gray 1821 hippopotamus ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Metridiochoerus sp. Hopwood 1926 pig | |
Giraffa gracilis giraffe | |
Bovidae indet., Aepyceros sp., Alcelaphini indet., Connochaetes sp., Redunca sp., Antilopini indet., "Gazella granti" = Nanger granti, Bovini indet., Taurotragus sp.
Aepyceros sp. Sundevall 1847 impala
Connochaetes sp. Lichtenstein 1812 wildebeest
Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck
"Gazella granti" = Nanger granti Brooke 1872 Grant's gazelle
Taurotragus sp. Wagner 1855 eland | |
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent | |
Theropithecus sp. Geoffroy 1843 gelada | |
Amphibia | |
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Actinopteri | |
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Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish |