Laetoli - Loc. 17: Piacenzian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Trochonanina B-Laetoli
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Saccostomus major
ETE occurrence; species: sp.nov.-Laetoli
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
cf. Paracolobus sp. Leakey 1969
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium praecox
2 specimens
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Hippotragini indet. Sundevall 1845
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippotragini-sp.nov.
Cephalophini indet. Blyth 1863
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cephalophini
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa cf. jumae Leakey 1967
2 specimens
Mammalia - Sivatheridae
Sivatherium cf. maurusium (Pomel 1893)
1 specimen
original and current combination Libytherium maurusium
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta exoptata Dietrich 1941
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania
Coordinates: 3.2° South, 35.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.4° South, 34.9° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary
*International age/stage:Piacenzian (minimum)
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vogel River Series Local bed:upper unit - Laetoli Beds
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = base of upper unit of Laetoli Beds, Min = Tuff 8 radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: aeolian, ETE lithology comments: 8775& aeolian, 20% airfall, 5% water-worked, LS, xenoliths, pelletoid - similar to Oldvai
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: volcanic, ETE sed env 2: paleosol ETE event: airfall, ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:15 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 475, 417, 409, 123, 104, 81, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 607, Laetoli - Loc. 17,
Database number:21789
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1995-10-11 00:00:00 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-11 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4451.ETE 85M. 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]