Manonga - BS1 - Clays: Pleistocene - Holocene, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Connochaetes taurinus
(Burchell 1823)
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Tanzania |
| Coordinates: | 3.9° South, 33.9° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.0° South, 33.8° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) |
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Mbuga/Yellow Clays | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = 0.022 My (Late Stone Age lithic assemblage). Min age = 0.0 My (faunal correlation with the modern Serengeti). radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: yellow and grey to black clays | |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: shallow_lake ETE event: ., ETE env comment: wet climate phase | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 2 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1018, Beredi South 1, HhIx/7, Manonga - BS1 - Clays, | ||
| Database number: | 22195 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1999-04-20 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-04-20 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5283. | ETE 1007 | T. 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] |