Ng 4 - Ibole/Tinde/Kiloleli: Messinian - Zanclean, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777
6 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 3.9° South, 33.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° South, 33.3° East
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary - Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene - Pliocene
Key time interval:Messinian - Zanclean
Age range of interval:7.24600 - 3.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wembere-Manonga Member:Ibole/Tinde/Kiloleli
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Max age = 5.5 My (faunal correlation with Lothagam). Min age = 4.0 My (faunal correlation with Kanapoi & Sagantole fm.)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Ibole:red & silty/sandy clays. Tinde: swelling clays & calcareous nodules. Kiloleli: claystones & calcareous aggregates.
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shallow lake, swampy margins, some emergences
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: micro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 961, Ng 4 - Ibole/Tinde/Kiloleli, Ng 4, HhIx/4,
Database number:22140
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:1999-03-16 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-05-10 08:25:06
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-16 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5379.ETE 1108T. Harrison. 1997. Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania A Window into the Evolutionary History of east Africa. Plenum Press, New York and London. [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]