PBDB Collection

NK28 - Nkondo or Warwire fm. (Miocene to of Uganda)

Also known as ETE Locality 1192, Nkondo 28, NK28 - Nkondo or Warwire fm.,

Where: Uganda (1.5° N, 31.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 30.2° E)

When: Nkondo/Warwire Formation (Albertine Group), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Max age= ~7 Ma based on fauna;min age = ~3.45

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: L. Obweruka

• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Nk:cly/slt/ironst;War:slt/snd/microcongl/ls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 947, 946, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: W. Van Neer. 1994. Fish remains from Late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites near Khashm el Girba,Sudan. Archaeofauna 3:115-126 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22368: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae	Protopterus sp. Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish
Mammalia
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Rhinocerotidae indet. Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhin ocerotidae
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Nyanzachoerus jaegeri, Nyanzachoerus jaegeri Nyanzachoerus jaegeri Coppens 1971 pig ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sm Nyanzachoerus jaegeri Coppens 1971 pig ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: med
Reptilia
Crocodylia - Gavialidae	Tomistoma coppensi n. sp. Tomistoma coppensi n. sp. Pickford 1994 false gharial NK 527'88 - type (nearly complete skull and mandible)