Maboko Island - Maboko fm.: Langhian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Burhinidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: cf. Burhinidae
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardeidae indet. Leach 1820
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Ardeidae (4 species)
Reptilia - Otidiformes - Otididae
Otididae indet. Gray 1840
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Otididae
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Gruidae
Gruidae indet. Vigors 1825
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Gruidae
unclassified
ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae
cf. Pelusios sp. Wagler 1830
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
cf. Megalohyrax sp. Andrews 1903
5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Pachyhyrax championi?
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergidae indet. Waterhouse 1841
5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bathyergidae
Mammalia - Primates - Dendropithecidae
Harrison 1989 24 specimens
provenance "Maboko Main" according to Harrison 1989; originally tied to reference 5292
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cercopithecidae
Mammalia - Primates - Victoriapithecidae
cf. Victoriapithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1969
2 specimens
Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969
433 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
2 specimens
Mammalia - Primates
Kenyapithecus africanus (Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951)
1 specimen
Kenyapithecus cf. africanus (Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951)
3 specimens
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Erinaceidae
Mammalia - Giraffidae
8 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939
2 specimens
cf. Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
10 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Chalicotheriidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 0.2° North, 34.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.2° South, 34.2° East (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Langhian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
*International age/stage:Serravallian (minimum)
Key time interval: Langhian
Age range of interval: 15.98 - 13.82 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maboko
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: tuff
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds and silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"
Environment:wet floodplain Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: very wet floodplain
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:504 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 522, 521, 488, 487, 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 903, Kiboko, Maboko Island - Maboko fm.,
Database number:22082
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-02-25 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-25 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
5292.ETE 1016A. J. Winkler. 1997. Systematics, Paleobiogeography, and Paleoenvironmental Significance of Rodents from the Ibole Member, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London 311-332 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

5308ETE 1032T. Harrison. 1989. A new species of Micropithecus from the middle Miocene of Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 18(6):537-557 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy]