Ishango - N. Tuf.: Holocene, Congo-Kinshasa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
40 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Phacochoerus aethiopicus (Pallas 1766)
3 specimens
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-md
Bovidae spp.
6 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae-lg
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
17 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Alcelaphini
Damaliscus lunatus (Burchell 1823)
2 specimens
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766
1 specimen
Redunca redunca Hamilton Smith 1827
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Ogilby 1833)
1 specimen
original and current combination Antilope ellipsiprymnus
Syncerus caffer (Sparman 1779)
rare category
original and current combination Bos caffer
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Pelorovis antiquus (Duvernoy 1851)
7 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Succineidae
Succinea cf. baumanni Sturany 1894
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Lymnaea natalensis Krauss 1848
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Burnupia cf. edwardiana Pilsbry and Bequaert 1927
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus kigeziensis (Preston 1912)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus bicarinatus (Mandahl-Barth 1954)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus faini (Adam 1957)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus apertus (Martens 1897)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gyraulus costulatus (Krauss 1848)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Bulinus truncatus (Audouin 1827)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Biomphalaria choanomphala (Martens 1879)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Biomphalaria sudanica (Martens 1870)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Thiaridae
Melanoides tuberculata (Müller 1774)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Paludomidae
Cleopatra bulimoides (Olivier 1804)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Viviparidae
Bellamya unicolor (Olivier 1804)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gastropoda - Ampullariidae
Pila ovata (Olivier 1804)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Gastropoda - Bithyniidae
Gabbiella humerosa (Martens 1879)
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Gabbiella senaariensis (Küster 1852)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Pisidium cf. victoriae Mandahl-Barth 1954
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Corbiculidae
Corbicula consobrina Adams and Adams 1857
abundant category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Coelatura bakeri (Adams 1866)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: .
Coelatura acuminata (Adams 1866)
rare category
ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
see common names

Geography
Country:Congo-Kinshasa
Coordinates: 0.1° South, 29.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° South, 29.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Holocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
*International age/stage:Holocene (minimum)
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Niveaux tufaces. "Wetter climatic conditions can be invoked to explain the appearance of two new and more water-dependent ruminants in the area, kob and African buffalo. Furthermore, if Bagu s arrived in Lake Rutanzige via the Semliki river after the formation of the older deposits, its appearance may perhaps be indicative for a more or less permanent high water level of the river. It may have enabled Bagrus to pass obstacles such as the rapids, which today seem to prevent Lake Rutanzige from being recolonised by fish living in the Lower Semliki and in Lake Mobutu. The foregoing assumptions, combined with the fact that high lake levels and considerable erosional processes took place after the formation of the Ishango horizons, suggest that this second stage may have coincided, at least partially, with the early Holocene wet period."
ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age = 21,000 +/- 500 (~10.5 cm above lake at Is11). Min age = 6890 +/- 75 (charcoal in Katwe Ash)." radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "cemented sand, gravel, and shell banks with soil traces"
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: fluctuating shore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ)
Collection size:280 specimens
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 485, 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, 454, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 888, Niveaux tufaces, Ishango - N. Tuf.,
Database number:22067
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-02-24 00:00:00 Last modified:2018-12-30 23:52:35
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-24 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5318.ETE 1042J. Peters. 1990. Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence. Revue de Paléobiologie 9(1):73-112 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

5319ETE 1043A. S. Brooks, D. Helgren, J. Cramer, A. Franklin, W. Hornyak, J. Keating, R. G. Klein, W. J. Rink, H. Schwarcz and J. N. Smith. 1995. Dating and context of three Middle Stone Age sites with bone points in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire. Science 268(5210):548-553 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Wagner]