Mata Menge, 2004-05 excavations (Pleistocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (8.7° S, 121.1° E: paleocoordinates 8.7° S, 121.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ola Bula Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• "deposits... lie between two tuffaceous silts with ascending zircon fission-track age of 880 +/- 70 kyr and 800 +/- 70 kyr, respectively."

•section is about 2 m thick and includes three main units, the lowest of which is not fossiliferous

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; sandstone and tuffaceous, white siltstone

• "deposite.. in a fluvio-lacustrine environment, probably by one of more distal volcanic fans entering a lake or small series of lakes."
• fossils "concentrated on the interfaces between sandy lenses and overlying white tuffaceous silts."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. Brumm, F. Aziz, G. D. Bergh, M. J. Morwood, M. W. Moore, I. Kurniawan, D. R. Hobbs and R. Fullagar. 2006. Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis. Nature 441:624-628 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 68069: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 01.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Hooijeromys nusatenggara
Aves
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Aves indet.
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
"bird"
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia sp.
Crocodylia sp. crocodilian
"crocodile"
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon florensis
Stegodon florensis Hooijer 1957 elephant
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"freshwater gastropods"
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant remains"