Where: Zambia (15.5° S, 28.2° E: paleocoordinates 15.5° S, 28.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• minimum age based on 230Th/234U date of 230 +35 -28 ka for a speleothem overlying the breccia
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithified, shelly/skeletal breccia
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• new material collected in 1996
Primary reference: D. M. Avery. 2003. Early and Middle Pleistocene environments and hominid biogeography; micromammalian evidence from Kabwe, Twin Rivers and Mumbwa Caves in central Zambia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 189(1-2):55-69 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68341: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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