Kathwanga: Burdigalian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Beard et al. 1986 | |||||||||
| ETE occurrence; species: Mammalia | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Proconsulidae
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Kenyapithecus africanus
(Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951)
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= Proconsul cf. africanus
Hopwood 1933
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Beard et al. 1986 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya | State/province: | Rusinga Island | County: | Kaswanga Point |
| Coordinates: | 0.4° South, 34.2° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.6° South, 32.0° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Miocene - Early/Lower - Middle Miocene |
| *International age/stage: | Burdigalian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44 - 15.98 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rusinga | Formation: | Hiwegi | Member: | Fossil Bed |
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Kisingiri sequence deposited during an interval of less than 0.5 million years and c. 17.8 Ma ago. radiometric intage_min | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous lithified siltstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: tuffaceous, ETE lithology comments: also clay; carbonate-rich; "red bed in upper part of Kathwanga Series" | |||
| Environment: | fine channel fill | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: ., ETE env comment: rapid, low-energy channelfill | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,field collection |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: ; ETE museum list: KNM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 156, Kaswanga Primate Site, R5 (part) | ||
| Database number: | 21357 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Created: | 1991-06-14 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-05-17 23:45:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1991-06-14 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24333. | L. S. B. Leakey. 1968. Lower dentition of Kenyapithecus africanus. Nature 217:827-830 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 4662 | ETE 304 | K. C. Beard, M. F. Teaford, and A. Walker. 1986. New wrist bones of Proconsul africanus and P. nyanzae from Rusinga Island, Kenya. Folia Primatologica 47:97-118 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy] |