Olduvai - PDK (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Also known as ETE Locality 791, Olduvai - PDK, Peter Davies Korongo,

Where: Tanzania (3.0° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 35.2° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olduvai Formation (Vogel River Series Group), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Bed IV radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: conglomerate

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Primary reference: A. W. Gentry and A. Gentry. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 29:289-446 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Muhl]more details

PaleoDB collection 21971: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 20.10.1997

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum, Equus oldowayensis
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphus strepsiceros, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, Alcelaphini indet., Rabaticeras arambourgi, Antilopini indet.
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu
ETE occurrence; species: grandis
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini-lg
Rabaticeras arambourgi Ennouchi 1953 antelope
Antilopini indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopini
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa jumae
Giraffa jumae Leakey 1967 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Metridiochoerus compactus
Metridiochoerus compactus Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932 pig
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus gorgops
Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928 hippo
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ETE occurrence; species: Chelonia
Aves
 Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio sp.
Struthio sp. Linnaeus 1758 ostrich
Actinopteri
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp.
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish