Olorgesailie - H/6: Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Osteichthyes
Amphibia
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758
5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Amphibia
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
155 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mammalia
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus sp. Geoffroy 1843
2 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium sp. Gray 1868
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Equidae
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928
1 specimen
Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
1 specimen
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 1.6° South, 36.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.6° South, 36.4° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Quaternary - Quaternary *Epoch:Pleistocene - Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Olorgesailie Member:7
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: intermittent spread of sand and/or sandy silts
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: sand spread in broad or ill-def. braided chan nel
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:172 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 654, Olorgesailie,
Database number:21836
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
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 631C. P. Koch. 1986. The Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Olorgesailie Formation (Middle Pleistocene, Kenya). [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

4871ETE 581G. 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]