Laetoli Locality 12: Zanclean, Tanzania
collected by T. Harrison, Laetoli Project 1998-2005

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
1 specimen
EP 1598/04 (Tentyriini species a) (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 3.2° South, 35.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.4° South, 35.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Zanclean
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 3.6 m.y. ago
Age estimate: 3.79 (graphic correlation) to 3.634 ± 0.015 Ma (Ar/Ar)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Upper Laetolil Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: A section of the Upper Laetolil Beds between Tuffs 5 and 8 are exposed, with most of the fossils derived from between Tuffs 5 and 6.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:T. Harrison, Laetoli Project Collection dates:1998-2005
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museum of Tanzania in Dar es Salaam
Metadata
Database number:129962
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:R. Sehtia
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-07-03 07:19:58 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-07-03 07:19:58
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

49479. F. T. Krell and W. Schawaller. 2011. Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera). In T. Harrison (ed.), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context. Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna 535-548 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]