Katanda 9 - Katanda Beds: Pleistocene - Holocene, Congo-Kinshasa

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Indet. indet.
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mormyriformes
Osteichthyes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
17 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Siluriformes
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Perciformes
Actinopteri - Centropomidae
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828
6 specimens
Actinopteri - Cichliformes - Cichlidae
Cichlidae indet. Heckel 1840
35 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cichlidae
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816
4 specimens
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777
62 specimens
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Bagridae
Bagrus sp. Bosc 1816
2 specimens
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Mochokidae
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816
103 specimens
Dipnomorpha - Lepidosirenidae
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
100 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821
10 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
Phacochoerus ethiopicus
5 specimens
Potamochoerus porcus (Linnaeus 1758)
4 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
19 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sm-med bovid
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
24 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: lg-med bovid
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
10 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: lg bovid
Tragelaphus spekei (Sclater 1864)
2 specimens
original and current combination Tragelaphus spekii
Redunca cf. redunca Hamilton Smith 1827
1 specimen
Damaliscus cf. dorcas (Pallas 1766)
3 specimens
Connochaetes taurinus (Burchell 1823)
5 specimens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus burchelli Gray 1824
1 specimen
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli
see common names

Geography
Country:Congo-Kinshasa
Coordinates: 0.1° North, 29.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° North, 29.5° East
Time
Period:Quaternary
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Epoch:Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene
*International age/stage:Holocene (minimum)
Key time interval:Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local bed:Katanda Beds
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max=173,810 +/- 800 (on hippo teeth from Kt9),min=6890 +/- 75 (or char from Katwe ash at Kabale 7)." radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: "medium and fine sands at base, sand with gravel, pebble-sized clasts, and alluvial components above."
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "alluvial, colluvial, and eolian"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:7639 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 561, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, 491, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 924, Katanda 9 - Katanda Beds,
Database number:22103
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:M. Kosnik
Created:1999-03-01 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-25 21:59:00
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-01 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5335.ETE 1063J. E. Yellen, A. S. Brooks, E. Cornelissen, M. Mehlman, and K. Stewart. 1995. A middle stone age worked bone industry from Katanda,Upper Semliki Valley,Zaire. Science 268(5210):553-556 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]