NK44 - Nkondo fm. (Miocene to of Uganda)

Also known as ETE Locality 1248, Nkondo 44, NK44 - 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: 936, ; 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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22424: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullariidae
Lanistes asellus apple snail
ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift
Lanistes senuti apple snail
ETE occurrence; species: mak - name shift
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet., "Nyanzachoerus waylandi" = Sus waylandi
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
"Nyanzachoerus waylandi" = Sus waylandi Cooke and Coryndon 1970 pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: lg
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus kenyensis MacInnes 1942 gomphothere
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon kaisensis Hopwood 1939 elephant
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
"Osteolaemus tetraspis" = Osteolaemus tetraspes
"Osteolaemus tetraspis" = Osteolaemus tetraspes Cope 1861 crocodile
Actinopteri
 Siluriformes - Claroteidae