NK45 - Nkondo fm. (Miocene to of Uganda)

Also known as ETE Locality 1247, Nkondo 45, NK45 - Nkondo fm.,

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

When: Nkondo 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 = ~4.5

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; silty claystone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: L. Obweruka
• ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: Nk:cly/slt/ironst;War:slt/snd/microcongl/ls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 941, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: W. Van Neer. 1994. Fish remains from Late Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites near Khashm el Girba,Sudan. Archaeofauna 3:115-126 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22423: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta sp. Cuvier 1825 African elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Lukeino
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
"Crocodylus nkondoensis" = Mecistops nkondoensis
"Crocodylus nkondoensis" = Mecistops nkondoensis Pickford 1994 crocodile