NY66 - Upper Oluka fm. (Miocene to of Uganda)

Also known as ETE Locality 1276, NY66 - Upper Oluka fm.,

Where: Uganda (1.0° N, 30.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 29.4° E)

When: Oluka Formation (Albertine Group), Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Up Oluka fm=~6 Ma based biostrat comp mam&mollusc faunas

Environment/lithology: lacustrine

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: L. Obweruka
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: ironstones

Collection methods: ETE Size: micro; ETE reference list: 947, ; 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

PaleoDB collection 22452: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Lates cf. niloticus
Lates cf. niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clariidae indet.
Clariidae indet. Bonaparte 1846 airbreathing catfish
ETE occurrence; species: Clariidae