Maboko Island - ?Maboko fm.: Langhian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Paleotragus primaevus
8 specimens
Choerlophodon kisumuensis
67 specimens
Nyanzapithecu pickfordi
85 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Victoriapithecidae
Victoriapithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1969
78 specimens
Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969
10 specimens
Victoriapithecus leakeyi von Koenigswald 1969
3 specimens
synonym of Victoriapithecus macinnesi
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Limnopithecus legetet Hopwood 1933
2 specimens
Kenyapithecus wickeri Leakey 1961
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates
Kenyapithecus africanus (Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951)
3 specimens
recombined as Equatorius africanus
Mammalia - Primates - Proconsulidae
Proconsul vancouveringi
2 specimens
cf. Nyanzapithecus pickfordi Harrison 1986
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
8 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
6 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Tayassuidae
Mammalia - Suidae
Libycochoerus khinzikebirus Wilkinson 1976
3 specimens
recombined as Megalochoerus khinzikebirus
Listriodon akatikubas Wilkinson 1976
10 specimens
Lopholistriodon sp. Pickford and Wilkinson 1975
9 specimens
Mammalia - Climacoceratidae
Climacoceras africanus MacInnes 1936
16 specimens
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth 1958
45 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
10 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: non-Boselaphini
Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939
2 specimens
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Canthumeryx sirtensis Hamilton 1973
Mammalia - Creodonta
Dissopsalis pyroclasticus Savage 1965
1 specimen
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Titanohyracidae
Pachyhyrax championi (Arambourg 1933)
4 specimens
recombined as Afrohyrax championi
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium hobleyi (Andrews 1911)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Protanancus macinnesi Arambourg 1945
Reptilia - Varanidae
Varanidae indet. Hardwicke and Gray 1824
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Varanidae
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Burhinidae
Burhinidae indet. Mathews 1912
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Burhinidae
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardeidae indet. Leach 1820
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Ardeidae
Reptilia - Bucerotiformes - Bucerotidae
Bucerotidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bucerotidae
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Phasianidae indet. Horsfield 1821
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 1046M. 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]