Senga 1 - Lusso Beds (Pliocene to of Congo-Kinshasa)

Also known as ETE Locality 945, Senga 1 - Lusso Beds,

Where: Congo-Kinshasa (0.0° N, 29.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° 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 myo for UpLusso Beds. Low Lusso Beds 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: 560, 559, ; 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 22124: 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 - Bovidae
Alcelaphini indet.
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini-sm
unclassified
  -
Pteridophyta indet.
Pteridophyta indet. Haeckel 1875
ETE occurrence; species: Pteridophyte