Olorgesailie - DE/89: Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
23 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Osteichthyes
Amphibia
Amphibia indet. Linnaeus 1758
31 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Amphibia
Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
7041 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mammalia
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Carnivora
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Insectivora
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Isaac 1977
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus sp. Geoffroy 1843
1886 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
39 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
21 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
14 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
Metridiochoerus sp. Hopwood 1926
1 specimen
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamidae indet. Gray 1821
30 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
37 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
Antilopini indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Antilopini
Gazella granti Brooke 1872
1 specimen
recombined as Nanger granti
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
3 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
2 specimens
Redunca sp. Smith 1827
2 specimens
Aepyceros sp. Sundevall 1847
4 specimens
Taurotragus sp. Wagner 1855
1 specimen
Bovini indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovini
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa gracilis
2 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
4 specimens
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
Mammalia - Insectivora
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Isaac 1977
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
16 specimens
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
6 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Aves
Actinopteri - Cichliformes - Cichlidae
Cichlidae indet. Heckel 1840
5 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cichlidae
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777
3 specimens
see common names

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
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
Local bed:B
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: sand commonly grades upward to silts
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: cut+fill proc.,sandy floor of ephemeral drain chan
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:9231 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 655, Land Surface 7, Olorgesailie - DE/89 B, Tr. Tr. B 4,
Database number:21837
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 631C. P. Koch. 1986. The Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Olorgesailie Formation (Middle Pleistocene, Kenya). [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

4870ETE 580G. 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]
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]