Also known as ETE Locality 778, Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter,
Where: Kenya (1.3° S, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 36.2° E)
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Holocene; 32 RC dates, 30 on harcoal and 2 on ostrich eggshell radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 489, 487, 482, 481, 479, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: C. W. Marean, N. Mudida, and K. E. Reed. 1994. Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in the Kenyan Central Rift Indicated by Micromammals from Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter. Quaternary Research 41:376-389 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 21959: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.05.1997, edited by John Damuth and Richard Potts
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus 1758 common duiker
Tragelaphus scriptus Pallas 1766 bushbuck | |
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew | |
Dendromus sp. Smith 1829 African climbing mice | |
Arvicanthis niloticus, Dasymys incomtus, Lemniscomys sp., Lophuromys flavopunctatus, Otomys irroratus, Praomys jacksoni, Thamnomys rutilans
Arvicanthis niloticus grass rat
Dasymys incomtus mouse
Lemniscomys sp. Trouessart 1881 striped grass mouse
Otomys irroratus mouse
Praomys jacksoni African soft-furred rat ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: or natalensis
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Tachyoryctes splendens Rüppell 1835 Northeast african mole rat | |
Elephantulus brachyrhynchus Smith 1834 Short-snouted elephant shrew | |
Mylomys | |