FC II West Tuff (Pleistocene of Tanzania)

Also known as ETE Locality 1288, Site 62b, Geol Loc #89, "Arch # 62, 63", FC II West Tuff,

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

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olduvai Formation, Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 1.749 +/- .007 (Tuff IF). Min age 1.15 (base of Bed II) radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shrinking lake
• ETE rock type adj: reworked, ETE lithology comments: 0

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 955, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology

Primary reference: R. Bonnefille. 1976. Palynological evidence for an important change in the vegetation of the Omo Basin between 2.5 and 2 million years ago. In: Coppens, Y., F.C. Howell, G.L. Isaac, R.E.F. Leakey. (eds). 1976. Earliest Man and Environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 421-431 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22464: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 24.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Dermoptera - Galeopithecidae
Galeopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 colugo
Aves
 Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio sp. Linnaeus 1758 ostrich
Actinopteri
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish