Lukenya Hill GvJm 46, 170-0cm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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4 specimens | |||||||||
| MNI = 2 | ||||||||||
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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52 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
| MNI = 6 | ||||||||||
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Equus grevyi
Oustalet 1882
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi | ||||||||||
| MNI = 1 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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18 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
| MNI = 4 | ||||||||||
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Ourebia ourebi
(Zimmerman 1783)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Antilope ourebi | ||||||||||
| MNI = 2 | ||||||||||
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Raphicerus campestris
(Thunberg 1811)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Antilope campestris | ||||||||||
| MNI = 1 | ||||||||||
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Aepyceros melampus
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNI = 1 | ||||||||||
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Redunca fulvorufula
(Afzelius 1815)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNI = 1 | ||||||||||
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Connochaetes taurinus
(Burchell 1823)
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11 specimens | |||||||||
| MNI = 2 | ||||||||||
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Alcelaphus buselaphus
Pallas 1766
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNI = 1 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya | State/province: | Athi-Kapiti |
| Coordinates: | 1.5° South, 37.1° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.5° South, 37.0° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Quaternary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Pleistocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Dated using C14. Maximum age ~21,000 to Mimumum ~18,000. Gx-5350 = 20,780 (+-)1050 to 19,330 (+-)945. Date from Miller, 1979. |
Lithology and environment
| Geology comments: Open air site. Savanna biome, Open vegetation, short and moist grasses. |
Taphonomy
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Feeding/predation traces: | tooth marks |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Late Pleistocene Geometric separated from MSA occupation by sterile lag deposit, capped by thin pastoral Neolithic. Microlith-rich/LSA (Backed bladelets, fan-shaped scrapers, hammerstones). Report includes two trenches 1m x 3m excavated by Miller (1979). Material held in the National Museum of Kenya. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Presence of blue wildebeest, Thomson's gazelle, Burchell's zebra and oribi indicate short moist grasses. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Lukenya Hill | ||
| Database number: | 32126 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | H. O'Regan, D. Reed |
| Modifier: | D. Reed | ||
| Created: | 2003-06-05 12:28:18 | Last modified: | 2003-06-06 09:59:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-06-05 12:28:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
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] |
Secondary references:
| 8645 | ETE | S. F. Miller. 1979. Lukenya Hill GvJm46, excavation report. Nyame Akuma 14:31-34 [A. Behrensmeyer/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan] |