Also known as ETE Locality 999, Kaiso Village fm. - General,
Where: Uganda (1.5° N, 31.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 30.8° E)
When: Kaiso Village Formation (Albertine Group), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Hohwa mbr is ~2.6 My old based on fauna. Kaiso Village mbr is ~2.3 Ma old based on fauna.
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•Lukaye et al. 2016: Surface exposures were dated as Plio-Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene by Pickford et al. [2] on the basis of mollusc assemblages and mammalian finds. Molluscan associations suggest 2.3Ma
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; silty ironstone
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•Lukaye et al. 2016: The formation’s sediments are interpreted to represent a fluvial to floodplain section that was close to the lake margin.
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•Lukaye et al. 2016: The base is defined above the thick amalgamated ironstone in the cliff-top underlying Lake Albert. The formation is observed in exposures in the Hohwa river valley and in coastal exposures near Kaiso Village. Exposures there consist of “sands and silts with minor ironstones” (the Kyeoro formation of Pickford et al. [2]), “clays and silts with oolitic ironstones and at its top, the Hohwa tuff” (their Hohwa member) and “clays and silts with ironstones” (their Kaiso Village member).
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: ETE Size: micro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History)
Primary reference: B. Senut, M. Pickford, I. Ssemmanda, D. Elepu, and P. Obwona. 1987. Decouverte du premier Homininae dans le Pleistocene de Nyabusosi. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II 305(9):819-822 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22178: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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elliptica elliptica, tuberculata tuberculata, consobrina consobrina, Pseudobovaria mwayana, cf. Onotragus sp., Strepisiceros cf. maryanus, Hippoptamus imagunculus, Hyperopisus sp., Bunocharax sp.
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Lates niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch
Lates cf. niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch | |
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Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish | |
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Clariidae indet. Bonaparte 1846 airbreathing catfish ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish | |
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Bagrus sp. Bosc 1816 naked catfish | |
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Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816 | |
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Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758 human | |
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Diceros bicornis Linnaeus 1758 black rhinoceros | |
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Hippopotamus kaisensis Hopwood 1926 hippo | |
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Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck
Kobus sp. Smith 1840 antelope
Aepyceros cf. melampus Lichtenstein 1812 impala | |
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Sivatherium sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 giraffe | |
cf. Mammuthus transvaalensis, "Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
cf. Mammuthus transvaalensis mammoth
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant | |
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Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
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Pelusios sp. Wagler 1830 sideneck turtle | |
"Crocodylus lloydi" = Rimasuchus lloydi
"Crocodylus lloydi" = Rimasuchus lloydi Fourtau 1918 crocodile | |
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"Viviparus unicolor" = Bellamya unicolor
"Viviparus unicolor" = Bellamya unicolor Olivier 1804 snail ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift
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