Peninj-Upper Sands w/Clay: Calabrian, Tanzania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Saccotomus sp.
1 specimen
Graphiurinae sp.
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.indet.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Hipparion cf. cornelianum
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Connochaetes cf. taurinus (Burchell 1823)
ETE occurrence; species: prognu
Megalotragus kattwinkeli (Scwarz 1932)
original and current combination Alcelaphus kattwinkeli
Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein 1812)
Damaliscus cf. niro (Hopwood 1936)
original and current combination Hippotragus niro
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)
ETE occurrence; species: grandis
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus cf. gorgops Dietrich 1928
Mammalia - Primates - Galagidae
Galago sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1796
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp. indet.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Aethomys cf. lavocati
7 specimens
Mus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Thallomys quadrilobatus
37 specimens
Arvicanthis primaevus
26 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Nesomyidae
Dendromus sp. Smith 1829
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp. indet.
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
3 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp. indet.
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas cf. recki Dietrich 1915
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE occurrence; species: cf. recki
see common names

Geography
Country:Tanzania State/province:Lake Natron Basin County:Kipalagu area
Coordinates: 2.3° South, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:2.4° South, 35.9° East
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Calabrian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*International age/stage:Gelasian - Calabrian
Key time interval:Calabrian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Peninj Formation:Humbu Member:Upper Sands
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Correl age of Olduvai Bed III,Wa-Mbugu olivine basalt smpls" radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Was originally under Hubu Formation. Base of formation is about ~1.75Ma, the Main Tuff is ~1.19+/-0.03Ma. The top of the Peninj Group is about 1.01+/-0.03Ma, therefore, the upper dsands are ~1.2-1.1Ma (Deino et al. 2006)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: w/ clay, ETE lithology comments: basalt tuff
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk
Collection size:226 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 975, ; ETE museum list:
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1397, Kipalagu, Peninj-Upper Sands w/Clay,
Database number:22558
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2000-04-13 01:00:00 Last modified:2022-03-29 04:32:18
Access level:the public Released:2000-04-13 01:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
5635.ETE 1386D. Geraads. 1987. La faune des depots pleistocenes de Ouest du lac Natron (Tanzanie) interpretation biostratigraphique. Sci.Geol.Bulletin 40(1-2):167-184 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]