Also known as ETE Locality 1448, Laetoli Footprint-L,
Where: Eastern Rift Valley, Tanzania (3.2° S, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 35.9° E)
• small collection-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 22608: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe |