Manonga - In3 - Ibole: Messinian - Zanclean, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Ampullariidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - name shift
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
8 specimens
Mammalia - Giraffidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Suidae
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
3 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus kenyensis MacInnes 1942
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 3.1° South, 33.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.6° South, 33.6° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene - Pliocene
Stage: Messinian - Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary - Tertiary
Key time interval: Messinian - Zanclean
Age range of interval: 7.246 - 3.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wembere-Manonga Member:Ibole
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Max age = 5.5, min age = 5.0. Dating by biostratigraphic correlation."
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "upper Ibole = red calcareous clays, lower Ibole = clay with dispersed silt and sand"
Environment:lacustrine - large
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine_lg, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lake w/ swampy margins
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:18 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 485, 479, 478, 477, 454, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 884, Inolelo 3, HhIw/10, Manonga - In3 - Ibole,
Database number:22063
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:1998-12-10 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1998-12-10 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
5283.ETE 1007T. Harrison and M. L. Mbago. 1997. Intoduction: Paleontological and Geological Research in the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London 1-32 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]