Olorgesailie - Meng (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 659, Land Surface 8, Menengetti Trench, Olorgesailie - Meng,

Where: Kenya (1.6° S, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 36.4° E)

When: 7 Member (Olorgesailie Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: ephemeral stream chan. which crossed silt flats
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: grade laterally into fine, yellowish silts

Collection methods: quarrying

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 487, 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: C. P. Koch. 1986. The Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Olorgesailie Formation (Middle Pleistocene, Kenya). [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 21841: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.03.1996

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet., Alcelaphini indet.
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus gorgops
Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928 hippo