Olorgesailie - Tr. Tr. M10: Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus sp.
Geoffroy 1843
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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20 specimens | |||||||||
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Mesochoerus sp.
Shaw and Cooke 1941
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27 specimens | |||||||||
Mesochoerus majus
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Metridiochoerus sp.
Hopwood 1926
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus gorgops
Dietrich 1928
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28 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Connochaetes sp.
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Reduncini indet.
Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Tragelaphus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudinidae indet.
Batsch 1788
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Cichliformes
- Cichlidae
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Cichlidae indet.
Heckel 1840
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Clariidae
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Clarias sp.
Scopoli 1777
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9 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: | 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: | 10 | ||
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: volcanic sands + gravels | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: large stream channel |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Collection size: | 119 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 482, 481, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 656, Land Surface 10, Olorgesailie - Tr. Tr. M10, Tr. Tr. 110-160, | ||
Database number: | 21838 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
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] |