Olorgesailie - I 3: Calabrian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Homoioceras sp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Pisces
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Pisces indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Isaac 1977 | |||||||||
| synonym of Osteichthyes | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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8068 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Metridiochoerus sp.
Hopwood 1926
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Metridiochoerus compactus
Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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22 specimens | |||||||||
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Bovini indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Reduncini indet.
Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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10 specimens | |||||||||
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Alcelaphus sp.
Blainville 1816
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Connochaetes sp.
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamidae indet.
Gray 1821
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30 specimens | |||||||||
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Hippopotamus gorgops
Dietrich 1928
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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35 specimens | |||||||||
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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50 specimens | |||||||||
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Hipparion sp.
de Christol 1832
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Ceratotherium sp.
Gray 1868
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Amphibia
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Amphibia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Isaac 1977 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 1.6° South, 36.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.6° South, 36.4° East |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *International age/stage: | Calabrian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Olorgesailie | Member: | 1 | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Best age estimate is .990 Ma (personal communication with R. Potts) radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: series of units, artifacts assoc. with irreg. surf. on lam diatomite, covered by massive, root-marked diatoma silts | |||
| Environment: | dry floodplain | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: dry_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: well-drained slope of tip of rocky peninsula | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 8263 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 484, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 651, Olorgesailie - I 3, | ||
| Database number: | 21833 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, V. Egerton |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1996-03-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1996-03-13 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4919. | ETE 631 | C. P. Koch. 1986. The Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Olorgesailie Formation (Middle Pleistocene, Kenya). [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 4870 | ETE 580 | G. L. Isaac. 1977. Olorgesailie: Archaeological Studies of a Middle Pleistocene Lake Basin in Kenya. University of Chicago Press, Chicago [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton] |
| 4871 | ETE 581 | G. L. Isaac. 1978. The Olorgesailie Formation: stratigraphy, tectonics and the paleogeographic context of the middle Pleistocene archaeological sites. In: Bishop, W. W. 1978. Geological Background to Fossil Man. London. Scottish Academic Press [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |