Laetoli - Loc. 3: Zanclean - Piacenzian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name, new species name "Urocyclidae-sp.A" split
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791
3 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta exoptata Dietrich 1941
2 specimens
Mammalia - Sivatheridae
3 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
2 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae
5 specimens
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
Mammalia - Bovidae
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-Hippotragini
Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816
1 specimen
2 specimens
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa stillei Arambourg 1947
6 specimens
Giraffa cf. jumae Leakey 1967
7 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Felidae-large
ETE occurrence; species: Laetoli-medium
originally entered as "Leo cf. gombagzoegensis"
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hyaenidae
Crocuta sp. Erxleben 1777
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
1 specimen
Parapapio ado Hopwood 1936
3 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Saccostomus sp. Peters 1846
ETE occurrence; species: sp.nov.-major
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
ETE occurrence; species: sp.nov.-leakeyi
Reptilia - Numididae
Numida sp. Linnaeus 1766
2 specimens
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Francolinus sp. Stephens 1819
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: large
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Torgos sp. Kaup 1828
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 3.2° South, 35.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.4° South, 35.1° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Zanclean - Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Zanclian - Piacenzian
Key time interval: Zanclean - Piacenzian
Age range of interval: 5.333 - 2.58 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vogel River Series Local bed:Upper Laetoli
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Min = Tuff 8, Max = Tuff 7 in Loc. 1 radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: grey, ETE lithology comments: aeolian tuff, nodular beds on limestone, scour and fill lenticular beds
Environment:wet floodplain
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: volcanic, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: airfall, ETE env comment: reworked by stream
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:80 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 648, Laetoli - Loc. 3,
Database number:21830
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1995-10-23 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-23 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4451.ETE 85M. D. Leakey and J. M. Harris. 1987. Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania. Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]