Olorgesailie - H/6: Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Amphibia
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Amphibia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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155 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus sp.
Geoffroy 1843
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium sp.
Gray 1868
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Hippopotamus gorgops
Dietrich 1928
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Clariidae
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Clarias sp.
Scopoli 1777
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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 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:
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] |