Nakali: Tortonian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystricidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Thryonomyidae indet. Pocock 1922
two taxa (small and large
Thryonomys sp. Fitzinger 1867
Paraulacodus johanesi
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Afrocricetodon cf. songhori Lavocat 1973
unclassified
Abudhabia sp.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
unclassified
Nakalimys lavocati
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Vulcanisciurus africanus Lavocat 1973
Mammalia - Primates - Galagidae
Galagidae indet. Mivart 1864
Mammalia - Primates
Catarrhini indet. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812
three taxa
Hominoidea indet. Gray 1825
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
cf. Microcolobus sp. Benefit and Pickford 1986
unclassified
Nakalipithecus nakayamai
Mammalia - Primates
Nyanzapithecinae indet. Harrison 2002
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotaminae indet. Gray 1821
Kenyapotamus coryndonae (Pickford 1983)
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus cf. germaini Arambourg 1959
? Samotherium sp. Forsyth Major 1888
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
Boselaphini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1997
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium cf. pigotti Whitworth 1958
Mammalia - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus nakaliensis n. sp. Tsubamoto et al. 2020
cf. Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. africanum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Schizotheriinae indet. Holland and Peterson 1913
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Chilotheridium pattersoni Hooijer 1971
Kenyatherium bishopi Aguirre and Guérin 1974
unclassified
Samburuceros ishidai
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceros sp. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutrinae indet. Baird 1857
Mammalia - Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Percrocuta leakeyi
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Hyaenidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Herpestidae
cf. Ichneumia sp. Geoffroy 1837
cf. Galerella sp. Gray 1864
cf. Cynictis sp. Ogilby 1833
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
cf. Viverridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
cf. Gymnurechinus sp. Butler 1956
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae
cf. Pronasilio sp. Butler 1984
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Rhynchocyonidae
cf. Miorhynchocyon sp. Butler 1984
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon sp. Schlesinger 1917
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium cf. bozasi Arambourg 1934
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Procaviidae
cf. Heterohyrax sp. (Gray 1868)
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 1.2° North, 36.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.7° North, 35.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Tortonian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Tortonian
Age range of interval: 11.63 - 7.246 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nakali
Stratigraphy comments: around 10.0–9.8 Ma, early Tortonian (basal late Miocene) (Kunimatsu et al., 2007;
Tsubamoto et al., 2017).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:219711
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2021-04-20 01:15:28 Last modified:2021-04-20 01:15:28
Access level:the public Released:2021-04-20 01:15:28
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
76531. T. Tsubamoto, Y. Kunimatsu, T. Sakai, M. Saneyoshi, D. Shimizu, N. Morimoto, H. Nakaya, N. Handa, Y. Tanabe, F. K. Manthi, and M. Nakatsukasa. 2020. A new species of Nyanzachoerus (Mammalia, Artiodactyla, Suidae, Tetraconodontinae) from the upper Miocene Nakali Formation, Kenya. Paleontological Research 24(1):41-63 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]