Moroto I (1985 collection) (Miocene to of Uganda)

Where: Uganda (2.5° N, 34.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 32.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• 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

•Moroto II and II fauna are Early Miocene–Middle Miocene in age (Pickford et al. 2003; Grossman et al. 2014; Pickford et al. 2017)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Doesn't seem to be related to Moroto Mountain collection

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 28292: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 04.02.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• List also records fossils collected from Moroto I prior to 1985; prior occurrences not recorded in the list include Lanistes Carinatus, Coprolites, Komba minor, Pterodon nyanzae, Diamantomys, Prodeinotherium, Walangania?
Reptilia
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Morotochoerus ugandensis n. gen. n. sp.
Morotochoerus ugandensis n. gen. n. sp. Pickford 1998 hippopotamus
 Artiodactyla - Anthracotheriidae
Anthracotheriidae indet. Leidy 1869 anthracothere
new genus
"Brachyodus aequatorialis" = Masritherium aequatorialis MacInnes 1951 anthracothere
 Primates -
Hominoidea indet. Gray 1825 ape
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere