Olduvai - EF - HR (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Also known as ETE Locality 792, Olduvai - EF - HR, Geologic Locality # 12, Archeological Locality # 23, Evelyn Fuchs - Hans Reck,

Where: Tanzania (3.0° S, 32.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° S, 32.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Middle Bed II radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Primary reference: A. W. Gentry and A. Gentry. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 29:289-446 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Muhl]more details

PaleoDB collection 21972: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 20.10.1997, edited by John Damuth and Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. oldowayensis, Hipparion cf. ethiopicum
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum
Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa jumae
Giraffa jumae Leakey 1967 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Gazella sp.
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet.
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
ETE occurrence; species: Suidae
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ETE occurrence; species: Testudines
 Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelusios sinuatus
Pelusios sinuatus Smith 1838 Serrated hinged terrapin