BK - Bed III/IV (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Also known as ETE Locality 1292, Geol Loc #94, Arch #66, BK - Bed III/IV,

Where: Tanzania (3.0° S, 35.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 35.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Olduvai Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 1.15 9Base of Bed III). Min age = 0.6 (Top of Bed IV). radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: some fluv_lacustr
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: detritus of volc/metam rks

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 944, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Primary reference: A. W. Gentry. 1978. Fossil Bovidae of the Baringo Area,Kenya. In:Geol.background to fossil man;recent res.in Gregory rift valley 293-308 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22468: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 24.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Syncerus acoelotus Gentry 1985 African buffalo
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: or Pelorovis antiquus
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: recki