Lainyamok - surface: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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10 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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175 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephantidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Procavia sp.
Storr 1780
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus afer
(Pallas 1766)
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30 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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20 specimens | |||||||||
Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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21 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
Equus grevyi
Oustalet 1882
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35 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffa sp.
Brisson 1762
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Giraffa camelopardalis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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313 specimens | |||||||||
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Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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12 specimens | |||||||||
Bovini indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Antilopini indet.
Gray 1821
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Gazella granti
Brooke 1872
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5 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Nanger granti | ||||||||||
Antidorcas sp.
Sundevall 1847
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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3 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
Cephalophini indet.
Blyth 1863
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Litocranius walleri
Brooke 1878
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Madoqua sp.
Ogilby 1837
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Aepyceros melampus
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Kobus sp.
Smith 1840
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Connochaetes sp.
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Damaliscus hunteri
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Damaliscus lunatus
(Burchell 1823)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Hippotragus equinus
(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Antilope equina | ||||||||||
Oryx sp.
de Blainville 1816
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Potamochoerus porcus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Felis libyca
Forster 1780
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11 specimens | |||||||||
Panthera pardus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Panthera leo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Felis caracal
Schreber 1776
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Caracal caracal | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Ichneumia albicauda
(Cuvier 1829)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Otocyon sp.
Müller 1835
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Canis mesomelas
Schreber 1775
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2 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Lupulella mesomelas | ||||||||||
Canis adustus
Sundevall 1847
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5 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Schaeffia adusta | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mellivora capensis
(Schreber 1776)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Thryonomyidae
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Thryonomys sp.
Fitzinger 1867
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Pedetidae
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Pedetes sp.
Illiger 1811
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7 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus capensis
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio sp.
Erxleben 1777
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5 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 1.8° South, 36.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 1.8° South, 36.2° East |
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Quaternary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Middle Pleistocene - Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local bed: | Khaki 2 | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: see Lainyamok - general radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | siltstone |
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: poorly sorted, buff, ETE lithology comments: massive unit, matrix supported with abundant pebble- and cobble-sized clasts | |
Environment: | dry floodplain |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: dry_floodplain ETE event: mudflow, ETE env comment: probably near lake marginsee DataSheet |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 6600 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 6, ; ETE museum list: KENYA N.S. |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 72, Lainyamok - surface, | ||
Database number: | 21276 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, R. Potts |
Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
Created: | 1991-06-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1991-06-19 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4430. | ETE 17 | R. Potts, P. Shipman, and E. Ingall. 1988. Taphonomy, Paleoecology, and Hominids of Lainyamok, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 17:596-614 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |