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
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 | |
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Mammalia | |
Suidae indet., "Nyanzachoerus waylandi" = Sus waylandi
"Nyanzachoerus waylandi" = Sus waylandi Cooke and Coryndon 1970 pig ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: lg
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Anancus kenyensis MacInnes 1942 gomphothere | |
Stegodon kaisensis Hopwood 1939 elephant | |
Reptilia | |
"Osteolaemus tetraspis" = Osteolaemus tetraspes
"Osteolaemus tetraspis" = Osteolaemus tetraspes Cope 1861 crocodile | |
Actinopteri | |
Chrysichthys macrotis catfish |