Where: Uganda (2.7° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° N, 32.7° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Miocene to Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Age constrained by being within Brachyodus range
•see comment on Moroto II concerning age assignment
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•Moroto II and II fauna are Early Miocene–Middle Miocene in age (Pickford et al. 2003; Grossman et al. 2014; Pickford et al. 2017)
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Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone and siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Uganda Paleontology Expedition
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• doesn't seem to be related to Moroto Mountain collection of Bishop, said to be from "the eastern valley" by Pickford et al. 2003
•microfossils obtained by "a wet screening programme during which ca 10 000 kg of sediment were treated"
Primary reference: M. Pickford, B. Senut, D. Hadoto, J. Musisi, and C. Kariira. 1986. Découvertes récentes dans les sites miocènes de Moroto (Ouganda Oriental): aspects biostratigraphiques et paléoécologiques (Recent discoveries in the Miocene sites at Moroto, North-East Uganda: biostratigraphical and palaeoecological implications). Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II 9:681-686 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28293: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 04.02.2003, edited by John Alroy and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
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"Eozygodon morotoensis" = Zygolophodon morotoensis
"Eozygodon morotoensis" = Zygolophodon morotoensis Pickford and Tassy 1980 mastodon | |
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"Prohylobates macinnesi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi2
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Kogolepithecus morotoensis n. gen. n. sp.2
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"Brachyodus aequatorialis" = Masritherium aequatorialis
"Brachyodus aequatorialis" = Masritherium aequatorialis MacInnes 1951 anthracothere | |
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? Herpetotheriidae indet.1 marsupial UM MOR II 48’04, an ultimate lower left molar; described by Pickford and Mein (2006) as a marsupial
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Cricetodontidae | |
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