Also known as ETE Locality 1437, Laetoli Footprint-A,
Where: Eastern Rift Valley, Tanzania (3.2° S, 35.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 34.8° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Laetolil Beds-Upper Member (Vogel River Series Formation), Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max.on base uppr unit Laetolil Bds(3.76+0.03),Min on Tuff 8(3.46+0.12)" radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: eolian
Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology
Primary reference: M. D. Leakey and J. M. Harris. 1987. Laetoli: a Pliocene Site in Northern Tanzania. Clarendon Press, Oxford, Great Britain [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 22597: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Lagamorpha/Madoqua
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Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: .; Triple entry removed abundance could be 14 or 4
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Phasianidae indet. Horsfield 1821 pheasant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Phasianid-Guinea Fowl
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