Also known as ETE Locality 1280, Nkondo 28, NK28 - 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: both; ETE reference list: 926, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: M. Pickford and B. Senut. 1994. Palaeobiology of the Albertine rift valley,Uganda-Zaire. In:Geol. and palaeobiology of the Albertine rift valley,B.Senut II:9-26 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22456: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 23.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
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Mammalia | |
"Hipparion turkanense" = Eurygnathohippus turkanense
"Hipparion turkanense" = Eurygnathohippus turkanense Hooijer and Maglio 1974 hipparionine horse | |
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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Reptilia | |
Tomistoma coppensi Pickford 1994 false gharial | |
Actinopteri | |
Lates cf. niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch | |
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish |