Kaiso Village fm. - General (Pliocene to of Uganda)

Also known as ETE Locality 999, Kaiso Village fm. - General,

Where: Uganda (1.5° N, 31.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 30.8° E)

When: Kaiso Village Formation (Albertine Group), Late/Upper Pliocene to Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Hohwa mbr is ~2.6 My old based on fauna. Kaiso Village mbr is ~2.3 Ma old based on fauna.

•Lukaye et al. 2016: Surface exposures were dated as Plio-Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene by Pickford et al. [2] on the basis of mollusc assemblages and mammalian finds. Molluscan associations suggest 2.3Ma

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; silty ironstone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: L. Obweruka

•Lukaye et al. 2016: The formation’s sediments are interpreted to represent a fluvial to floodplain section that was close to the lake margin.

• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "Hohwa mbr: clays, silts, a tuff, fossiliferous ironstones. Kaiso Viallge mbr: clays, silts, ironstones."

•Lukaye et al. 2016: The base is defined above the thick amalgamated ironstone in the cliff-top underlying Lake Albert. The formation is observed in exposures in the Hohwa river valley and in coastal exposures near Kaiso Village. Exposures there consist of “sands and silts with minor ironstones” (the Kyeoro formation of Pickford et al. [2]), “clays and silts with oolitic ironstones and at its top, the Hohwa tuff” (their Hohwa member) and “clays and silts with ironstones” (their Kaiso Village member).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: micro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History)

Primary reference: B. Senut, M. Pickford, I. Ssemmanda, D. Elepu, and P. Obwona. 1987. Decouverte du premier Homininae dans le Pleistocene de Nyabusosi. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II 305(9):819-822 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22178: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Lates niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch
Lates cf. niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch
 Characiformes - Alestidae
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816
 Siluriformes - Mochokidae
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clariidae indet. Bonaparte 1846 airbreathing catfish
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish
 Siluriformes - Claroteidae
Chrysichthys macrotis catfish
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp. nov.
 Siluriformes - Bagridae
Bagrus sp. Bosc 1816 naked catfish
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ETE occurrence; species: Chelonia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
"Crocodylus lloydi" = Rimasuchus lloydi
"Crocodylus lloydi" = Rimasuchus lloydi Fourtau 1918 crocodile
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelusios sp. Wagler 1830 sideneck turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
 Primates - Hominidae
Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758 human
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Sivatherium sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Kobus sp. Smith 1840 antelope
Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck
Aepyceros cf. melampus Lichtenstein 1812 impala
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
cf. Notochoerus sp. Broom 1925 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus kaisensis Hopwood 1926 hippo
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
Diceros bicornis Linnaeus 1758 black rhinoceros
Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
"Viviparus unicolor" = Bellamya unicolor
"Viviparus unicolor" = Bellamya unicolor Olivier 1804 snail
ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia
 Unionida - Iridinidae
Aspatharia cailliaudi clam
ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift
 Unionida - Mutelidae
Mutela cf. allaudi clam
ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift
Mutela cf. nilotica Crosse 1881 clam
ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift