Ishango - Lusso Beds (Pliocene to of Congo-Kinshasa)

Also known as ETE Locality 909, Ishango - Lusso Beds,

Where: Congo-Kinshasa (0.1° N, 29.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 29.4° E)

When: Albertine Group, Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Biostrat comp of fauna sugg an age of 2.0 - 2.35 my for Up Lusso Beds. Lower Lusso Beds age unkown.

Environment/lithology: lacustrinegraded

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "clay, silt, sand, and oolitic ironstones"

Collection methods: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: W. J. Sanders. 1990. Fossil Proboscidea from the Pliocene Lusso Beds of the Western Rift,Zaire. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memior 1:171-187 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22088: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 01.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon kaisensis
Stegodon kaisensis Hopwood 1939 elephant
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus, cf. Kolpochoerus sp.
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog
cf. Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig