PBDB Collection

NK44 - Nkondo or Warwire fm. (Miocene to of Uganda)

Also known as ETE Locality 1200, Nkondo 44, NK44 - Nkondo or Warwire fm.,

Where: Uganda (1.5° N, 31.0° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 30.2° E)

When: Nkondo/Warwire Formation (Albertine Group), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Max age= ~7 Ma based on fauna;min age = ~3.45

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported

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

• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Nk:cly/slt/ironst;War:slt/snd/microcongl/ls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 944, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: D. Geraads. 1994. Evolution of bovid diversity in the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. Historical Biology 7(3):221-237 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22376: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Artiodactyla - Suidae	Nyanzachoerus jaegeri Nyanzachoerus jaegeri Coppens 1971 pig ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: med
Artiodactyla - Bovidae	Bovidae indet., cf. Aepyceros sp. Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini sp. A cf. Aepyceros sp. Sundevall 1847 impala ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: nov.
Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae	Diceros bicornis Diceros bicornis Linnaeus 1758 black rhinoceros
Reptilia
Crocodylia - Crocodylidae	"Osteolaemus cf. tetraspis" = Osteolaemus tetraspes, "Crocodylus nkondoensis n. sp." = Mecistops nkondoensis "Osteolaemus cf. tetraspis" = Osteolaemus tetraspes Cope 1861 crocodile NK 427'86 (right maxilla fragment) "Crocodylus nkondoensis n. sp." = Mecistops nkondoensis Pickford 1994 crocodile NK 1151'89 - type (left mandible)