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
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 | |
Elephantulus fuscus Peters 1852 Dusky elephant shrew ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: leakeyi
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"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
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Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
Giraffa jumae Leakey 1967 giraffe
Okapia sp. Lankester 1901 okapi | |
Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928 hippo | |
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig | |
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium Pomel 1893 placental | |
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei, Homo habilis
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine | |
Aves | |
Colius cf. striatus Gmelin 1789 speckled mousebird |