Also known as ETE Locality 1464, Frida Leakey Korongo, Geol loc.45, FLKI West-Bd I,
Where: Tanzania (3.0° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.1° S, 35.1° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Olduvai Formation, Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max=1.87(base Bed I)min=1.749+/-.007(Tuff IF) radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; silty claystone
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology
Primary reference: M. G. Leakey and R.E.F. Leakey. 1978. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Hominids and an Introduction to Their Context, 1968 - 1974. Oxford University Press, New York I [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 22624: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.06.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Indet. Urocyclidae ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
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Struthionidae indet. Vigors 1825 ostrich ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Struthionidae
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Deinotheriidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 deinothere ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Deinotheriidae
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Hippopotamidae indet. Gray 1821 hippopotamus ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippopotamidae
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Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe | |
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"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: boisei (?)
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Amphibia | |
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