Olduvai - EF - HR: Calabrian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. oldowayensis
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Hipparion cf. ethiopicum
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffa jumae
Leakey 1967
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Suidae | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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| ETE occurrence; species: Testudines | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Pelusios sinuatus
Smith 1838
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Auffenberg 1981 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Tanzania |
| Coordinates: | 3.0° South, 32.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.0° South, 32.3° East |
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *International age/stage: | Calabrian - Calabrian | ||
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Vogel River Series | Local bed: | II | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Middle Bed II radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0 | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 34 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 792, Olduvai - EF - HR, Geologic Locality # 12, Archeological Locality # 23, Evelyn Fuchs - Hans Reck, | ||
| Database number: | 21972 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, E. Vlachos | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, E. Vlachos, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-10-20 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-10-20 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4945. | ETE 657 | A. W. Gentry and A. Gentry. 1978. Fossil Bovidae (Mammalia) of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Part I. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History 29:289-446 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer] |
Secondary references:
| 66491 | W. Auffenberg. 1981. The Fossil Turtles of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, Africa. Copeia 1981(3):509-522 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |