FLKI Main-Bd I (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Also known as ETE Locality 1457, Frida Leakey Korongo, Arch#44, Geol loc.45, FLKI Main-Bd I,

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

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max=1.87(base Bed I)min=1.749+/-.007(Tuff IF) radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; silty claystone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "lrg salne,alklne lk"
• ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: "green/grey/brwn slty cly&cly,tuff"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Primary reference: J. M. Harris and T.D. White. 1979. Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene African Suidae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 69:1-128 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22617: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.06.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae
Elephantulus fuscus Peters 1852 Dusky elephant shrew
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: leakeyi
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE occurrence; species: early
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
Giraffa jumae Leakey 1967 giraffe
Okapia sp. Lankester 1901 okapi
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig
 Tribosphenida - Sivatheridae
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium Pomel 1893 placental
 Primates - Hominidae
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei, Homo habilis
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine
Homo habilis Leakey et al. 1964 human
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: three +
 Rodentia - Muridae
Tatera gentryi large naked-soled gerbil
Aves
 Coliiformes - Coliidae
Colius cf. striatus Gmelin 1789 speckled mousebird