Also known as ETE Locality 1267, NY45 - Kakara fm.,
Where: Uganda (1.0° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 29.9° E)
When: Kakara Formation (Albertine Group), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Max age = ~7 Ma based on fauna;min age = ~4.5
•Part of Albertine Group and Albertine rift was initiated around 12.5 Ma (Pickford et al. 1993). Van Damme and Pickford 1999 also suggest laste miocene age based on Molluscan assemblages. Revised stratigraphy of the Albertine Graben rift also proposes a Late Miocene age for the Kakara Fm (Lukaye et al. 2016)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: ETE Size: micro; ETE reference list: 926, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: S. Bailon and J.C. Rage. 1994. Neogene and Pleistocene squamates from the Western Rift,Uganda. In:Geol. and paleobiology of the Albertine rift valley, B.Senut(ed.) II:129-135 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22443: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Colubridae
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Mammalia | |
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Acomys sp. Geoffroy 1838 (African) spiny mice | |
Osteichthyes | |
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
Actinopteri | |
Gymnarchus cf. niloticus aba knifefish | |
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816 | |
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish | |
Clariidae indet. Bonaparte 1846 airbreathing catfish ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Clariidae
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