Ishango - N.F.P.: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Congo-Kinshasa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Paludomidae
Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier 1804)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Thiaridae
Melanoides tuberculata (Müller 1774)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Bellamya unicolor (Olivier 1804)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Ampullariidae
Pila ovata (Olivier 1804)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Bithyniidae
Gabbiella humerosa (Martens 1879)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gabbiella senaariensis (Küster 1852)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss 1848)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Biomphalaria choanomphala (Martens 1879)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus faini (Adam 1957)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus kigeziensis (Preston 1912)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus apertus (Martens 1897)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Burnupia cf. edwardiana Pilsbry and Bequaert 1927
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Succineidae
Succinea ? baumanni Sturany 1894
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Subulinidae
Curvella indet. Chaper 1885
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Achatinidae
Achatina stuhlmanni von Martens 1892
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Limicolaria martensiana (Smith 1880)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Corbicula consobrina Adams and Adams 1857
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Pisidium cf. victoriae Mandahl-Barth 1954
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Sphaerium hartmanni (Jickeli 1874)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia - Unionida - Mutelidae
Mutela ? nilotica Crosse 1881
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Coelatura bakeri (Adams 1866)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Coelatura acuminata (Adams 1866)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia - Unionida - Iridinidae
Aspatharia rubens (Lamarck 1819)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Bivalvia - Unionida - Etheriidae
Etheria elliptica Lamarck 1807
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Dipnomorpha - Lepidosirenidae
Protopterus aethiopicus Heckel 1851
26 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Thryonomys swinderianus (Temminck 1827)
19 specimens
Mammalia - Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885
26 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Lepus or Poelagus
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecidae sp. Gray 1821
3 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cercopithecus or Colobus
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758
Boaz 1990 16 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sapiens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae sp. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Diceros or Ceratotherium
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. burchelli Gray 1824
1 specimen
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli
Mammalia - Suidae
Hylochoerus meinertzhageni Thomas 1904
2 specimens
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
10 specimens
Potamochoerus sp. Gray 1854
17 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: or Phacochoerus
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
96 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
19 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
Bovidae informal small indet.
52 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-sm
Bovidae informal medium indet.
97 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-md
Bovidae informal large indet.
518 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-lg
Bovidae informal very large indet.
26 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-v. lg
Ourebia ourebi (Zimmerman 1783)
5 specimens
original and current combination Antilope ourebi
Hippotragus equinus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)
10 specimens
original and current combination Antilope equina
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
218 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell 1823)
11 specimens
Reduncini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
6 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reduncini
Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)
4 specimens
original and current combination Antilope ellipsiprymnus
Redunca redunca Hamilton Smith 1827
26 specimens
Tragelaphini indet. Blyth 1863
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Tragelaphini
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)
2 specimens
Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas 1766)
11 specimens
Tragelaphus spekei (Sclater 1864)
1 specimen
original and current combination Tragelaphus spekii
Taurotragus sp. Wagner 1855
22 specimens
Pelorovis antiquus (Duvernoy 1851)
15 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
ETE occurrence; species: Carnivora-sm
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera leo (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lutra maculicollis Lichtenstein 1835
6 specimens
recombined as Hydrictis maculicollis
Aonyx sp. Lesson 1827
2 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus afer (Pallas 1766)
3 specimens
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Numenius phaeopus (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816
5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Accipitridae
Buteoninae indet. Vigors 1824
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Buteoninae
Aegypiinae indet.
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Aegyptinae
Haliaeetus vocifer (Daudin 1800)
1 specimen
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Corvidae
Corvus albicollis Latham 1790
3 specimens
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Anas sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Plectropterus gambensis (Linnaeus 1766)
5 specimens
Reptilia - Suliformes - Anhingidae
Anhinga melanogaster Pennant 1769
3 specimens
Reptilia - Suliformes - Phalacrocoracidae
Phalacrocorax carbo (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Phalacrocorax africanus (Gmelin 1789)
1 specimen
recombined as Microcarbo africanus
Reptilia - Ciconiiformes - Ciconiidae
Ciconiidae informal indet. 1 Sundevall 1836
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Leptoptillinae
Ciconiidae informal indet. 2 Sundevall 1836
3 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Ciconiidae
Mycteria ibis (Linnaeus 1766)
5 specimens
Anastomus lamelligerus Temminck 1823
3 specimens
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Egretta alba (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
original and current combination Ardea alba
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Pelecanidae
Pelecanus rufescens Gmelin 1789
2 specimens
Reptilia - Phoenicopteriformes - Phoenicopteridae
Phoeniconaias minor (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1798)
4 specimens
recombined as Phoenicoparrus minor
Reptilia - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio camelus Linnaeus 1758
ETE occurrence; species: eggshell
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Francolinus sp. Stephens 1819
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: F. squamata or nobilis
Actinopteri - Cichliformes - Cichlidae
Cichlidae indet. Heckel 1840
828 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Tilapiini
Actinopteri - Centropomidae
Lates niloticus (Linnaeus 1758)
649 specimens
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816
1679 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: bynni
Barbus altianalis Boulenger 1900
24 specimens
Barbus bynni (Forsskål 1775)
826 specimens
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Mochokidae
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816
449 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: frontosus
Synodontis schall (Bloch and Schneider 1801)
3 specimens
Synodontis frontosus Vaillant 1895
427 specimens
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias cf. gariepinus
882 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: cf. gariepinus, mak - species name from unique name
cf. Heterobranchus sp. Hilaire 1827
18 specimens
Cladistia - Polypteriformes - Polypteridae
Polypterus cf. senegalus
30 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - species name from unique name
see common names

Geography
Country:Congo-Kinshasa
Coordinates: 0.1° South, 29.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° South, 29.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
*International age/stage:Holocene (minimum)
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "The first stage, characterised by the Ishangian levels, is illustrative for a Late Pleistocene hunter-fisher-gatherer Community adapted to relatively dry and open savanna living conditions. For the moment it is impossible to give a more precise estimate of the age of the Ishango culture, but it is not inconceivable that the N.F.PR. assemblage relates to one of somewhat drier phases that occurred within the second half of the Late Pleistocene, i.e. from ca. 21000 to 17500 BP or from 14500 to 12500 BP."
ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age = 21,000 +/- 500 (date in NFP at Is11). Min age = 6890 +/- 75 (charcoal from the Katwe ash)." radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min. Niveau fossilifere principal.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "dense concentration of bones and artifacts, possibly a debris wash"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: fluctuating shore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:14131 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 487, 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, 81, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 887, Niveau fossilifere principal, Ishango - N.F.P.,
Database number:22066
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-02-24 00:00:00 Last modified:2018-12-30 23:51:54
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-24 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5318.ETE 1042J. Peters. 1990. Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence. Revue de Paléobiologie 9(1):73-112 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

5321ETE 1045N. T. Boaz. 1990. Evolution of environments and Hominidae in the African Western Rift Valley. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memior 1(i-xii):1-356 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]