Ngofila 5 - Tinde mbr.: Pliocene, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| originally entered as "Deinotherium boasi" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Eurygnathohippus cf. turkanense
(Hooijer and Maglio 1974)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Tanzania |
| Coordinates: | 3.9° South, 33.8° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.1° South, 33.4° East |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary - Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene - Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wembere-Manonga | Member: | Tinde | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Max age = 5.0, Min age = 4.5" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | desiccation cracks claystone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: clys w/calc nod&rd paleosol | |
| Environment: | lacustrine - small |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine_lg, ETE sed env 2: shallow_lake ETE event: ., ETE env comment: oxyg lake w/swmpy mrg | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 2 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 933, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1302, Manonga Valley, HiIx/5, Ngofila 5 - Tinde mbr., | ||
| Database number: | 22478 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1999-08-24 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-24 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5294. | ETE 1018 | D. Van Damme and A. Gautier. 1997. Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusks of the Wembere-Manonga Formation, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London 351-360 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |