Lukenya Hill GvJm 22, 250-100cm: Late Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis serval Schreber 1776
1 specimen
MNI = 1
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
1 specimen
MNI = 1
Mammalia - Suidae
20 specimens
MNI = 4
Mammalia - Bovidae
Pelorovis antiquus (Duvernoy 1851)
2 specimens
MNI = 1
1 specimen
MNI = 1
Oreotragus oreotragus (Zimmermann 1783)
7 specimens
MNI = 2
Ourebia ourebi (Zimmerman 1783)
11 specimens
MNI = 2
Gazella thomsoni Gunther 1884
49 specimens
MNI = 5
Gazella granti Brooke 1872
16 specimens
MNI = 2
Raphicerus campestris (Thunberg 1811)
1 specimen
MNI = 1
2 specimens
MNI = 1
73 specimens
MNI = 11
Connochaetes taurinus (Burchell 1823)
43 specimens
MNI = 7
Redunca fulvorufula (Afzelius 1815)
9 specimens
MNI = 2
6 specimens
MNI = 1
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
1 specimen
MNI = 1
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
19 specimens
MNI = 2
Equus burchelli Gray 1824
95 specimens
MNI = 6
Equus grevyi Oustalet 1882
10 specimens
MNI = 2
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya State/province:Athi-Kapiti Plains
Coordinates: 1.5° South, 37.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Late/Upper Quaternary *Epoch:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local bed:Occupation E and F
Stratigraphy comments: Dated with C14. UCLA-1709 = 17,700 (+-)760yrs and 17,670 (+-)800yrs. Gx-3699 = 15320 (+-)450. Gx-3698 = 13,730 (+-)430.
Lithology and environment
Environment:cave
Geology comments: Rock shelter. Tropical climate, Savanna biome, Open vegetation. Open, arid, tall and short (moist) grasses, possible woody growth as dry bush and scrub vegetation
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Feeding/predation traces:tooth marks
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Collection size:676 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Includes both Occurrence E and F, Late Pleistocene Geometric separated from late Holocene ceramic by a disconformity. Material held in National Museums of Kenya.
Metadata
Also known as:Lukenya Hill
Database number:32113
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:H. O'Regan, D. Reed
Modifier:D. Reed
Created:2003-06-05 07:02:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-05 07:02:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
8626.ETE C. W. Marean. 1992. Implications of Late Quaternary mammalian fauna from Lukenya Hill (South-Central Kenya) for paleoenvironmental change and faunal extinctions. Quaternary Research 37:239-255 [A. Behrensmeyer/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]