Kanyatsi 5 - Katwe Ash (Holocene of Congo-Kinshasa)

Also known as ETE Locality 914, Kanyatsi 5 - Katwe Ash,

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

When: Albertine Group, Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Bulk of Katwe ash was extruded at 6890 +/- 75 y BP (C14 date from near top of the ash). radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: eolian

• ETE sed env 1: eolian, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: airfall, ETE env comment: ash from Katwe volcano
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "ash, soft or indurated"

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 560, 559, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: A. W. Gentry. 1990. The Semliki fossil bovids. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memior 1:225-234 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22093: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 01.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Reduncini indet., Ourebia sp., Tragelaphus sp.
Reduncini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reduncini
Ourebia sp. antelope
Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816 antelope