Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm.: Langhian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Paleotragus primaevus
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8 specimens | |||||||||
Choerlophodon kisumuensis
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67 specimens | |||||||||
Nyanzapithecu pickfordi
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85 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Victoriapithecidae
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Victoriapithecus sp.
von Koenigswald 1969
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78 specimens | |||||||||
Victoriapithecus macinnesi
von Koenigswald 1969
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Victoriapithecus leakeyi
von Koenigswald 1969
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3 specimens | |||||||||
synonym of Victoriapithecus macinnesi | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Limnopithecus legetet
Hopwood 1933
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Kenyapithecus wickeri
Leakey 1961
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
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Kenyapithecus africanus
(Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Equatorius africanus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Proconsulidae
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Proconsul vancouveringi
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2 specimens | |||||||||
cf. Nyanzapithecus pickfordi
Harrison 1986
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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8 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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6 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Tayassuidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Libycochoerus khinzikebirus
Wilkinson 1976
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3 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Megalochoerus khinzikebirus | ||||||||||
Listriodon akatikubas
Wilkinson 1976
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Lopholistriodon sp.
Pickford and Wilkinson 1975
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9 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Climacoceratidae
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Climacoceras africanus
MacInnes 1936
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16 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium pigotti
Whitworth 1958
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45 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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10 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: non-Boselaphini | ||||||||||
Eotragus sp.
Pilgrim 1939
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Canthumeryx sirtensis
Hamilton 1973
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Dissopsalis pyroclasticus
Savage 1965
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Titanohyracidae
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Pachyhyrax championi
(Arambourg 1933)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Afrohyrax championi | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Prodeinotherium hobleyi
(Andrews 1911)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Protanancus macinnesi
Arambourg 1945
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanidae indet.
Hardwicke and Gray 1824
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Varanidae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Burhinidae
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Burhinidae indet.
Mathews 1912
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Burhinidae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pelecaniformes
- Ardeidae
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Ardeidae indet.
Leach 1820
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Ardeidae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Bucerotiformes
- Bucerotidae
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Bucerotidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bucerotidae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Phasianidae
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Phasianidae indet.
Horsfield 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Phasianidae | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 0.2° North, 34.6° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 0.7° South, 32.9° East |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Langhian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
*International age/stage: | Serravallian (minimum) | ||
Key time interval: | Langhian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Maboko | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported | ||
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds, silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs" | |||
Environment: | wet floodplain | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: very wet floodplain |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 383 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 891, Kiboko, Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm., | ||
Database number: | 22070 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1999-02-24 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-04-20 08:57:43 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-24 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5322. | ETE 1046 | M. Pickford. 1992. Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II 315(11):1419-1424 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |