Olduvai Bed II (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Where: Tanzania (3.0° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 35.2° E)

When: Olduvai Formation (Vogel River Series Group), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Geraads. 2011. A revision of the fossil Canidae (Mammalia of north-western Africa. Palaeontology 54(2):429-446 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230987: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 28.07.2023

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis africanus n. sp." = Xenocyon africanus
"Canis africanus n. sp." = Xenocyon africanus Pohle 1928 canine