Songhor (Main Site) (Miocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 544, Songhor (Main Site),

Where: Kenya (0.0° S, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 33.1° E)

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0. This area has been dated to the Lower Miocene, 16.5 –18.5 MYA

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 104, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: W. W. Bishop and J. D. Clark. 1965. Background to Evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 21726: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.08.1995, edited by John Alroy, Mark Uhen and Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Otus sp.7 Pennant 1769 scops owl
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
cf. Melierax metabates7 Heuglin 1861 dark-chanting goshawk
or M. canorus
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Kinixys erosa2 Schweigger 1812 forest hingeback tortoise
BMNH and KNM specimens
 Squamata - Varanidae
? Varanus rusingensis1 Clos 1995 monitor lizard
Mammalia
 Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Brachyhyrax aequatorialis n. gen. n. sp.5
Brachyhyrax aequatorialis n. gen. n. sp.5 Pickford 2004 hyrax
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus minutus n. sp.4 Pickford 1975 aardvark
 Creodonta -
Teratodon enigmae n. sp.6 Savage 1965 creodont
Teratodon spekei6 Savage 1965 creodont
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
 Carnivora - Herpestidae
Ugandictis napakensis3 Morales et al. 2007 mongoose
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Kichechia zamanae6 Savage 1965 civet
 Carnivora - Felidae
"Metailurus africanus" = Pseudaelurus africanus6
"Metailurus africanus" = Pseudaelurus africanus6 Andrews 1914 cat
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Hecubides euryodon6 Savage 1965 bear-dog