Also known as BUKII

Where: Uganda (1.3° N, 34.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.0° S, 34.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• revised age estimate for the Bukwa localities of 19.1–19.5 Ma (MacLatchy et al., 2006 MacLatchy, L., A. Deino, and J. Kingston. 2006. An updated chronology for the early Miocene of NE Uganda. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(3, Supplement):93A.

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•Cote et al. 2018: 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating ages on lavas bracketing the site indicate that the Bukwa fossils were deposited ~19 Ma, roughly 3 Ma younger than the original radiometric age.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; claystone and siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Murray, T. Argyriou, S. Cote and L. MacLatchy. 2017. The fishes of Bukwa, Uganda, a lower Miocene (Burdigalian) locality of East Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(3) [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192070: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 06.03.2018

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