Malema - RC11: Pliocene, Malawi
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta adaurora
Maglio 1970
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Elephas recki
Dietrich 1915
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| recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki | ||||||||||
| ETE occurrence; species: shungurensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Notochoerus scotti
(Leakey 1943)
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11 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: aff. Aepyceros | ||||||||||
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: aff.Hippotragus gigas | ||||||||||
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: aff. Kobus | ||||||||||
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: Neotragini | ||||||||||
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Bovini sp.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: aff. Syncerus | ||||||||||
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Tragelaphini indet.
Blyth 1863
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| ETE occurrence; species: Tragelaphini | ||||||||||
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Alcelaphus sp.
Blainville 1816
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| ETE occurrence; species: aff. Damaliscus | ||||||||||
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Megalotragus kattwinkeli
(Scwarz 1932)
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| original and current combination Alcelaphus kattwinkeli | ||||||||||
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Antilopini sp.
Gray 1821
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| ETE occurrence; species: aff. Gazella | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Sivatherium sp.
Falconer and Cautley 1836
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Giraffa aff. stillei
Arambourg 1947
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Giraffa aff. pygmaea
Harris 1976
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Giraffa aff. jumae
Leakey 1967
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion aff. libycum
Pomel 1897
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33 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Eurygnathohippus libycum | ||||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: aff. libycum ethiopicum, mak - species name from unique name | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Paranthropus boisei
(Leakey 1959)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecus sp.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Malawi | County: | Karonga District |
| Coordinates: | 10.0° South, 33.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.2° South, 33.6° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: green, ETE lithology comments: "greenish,slight slt" | |
| Environment: | deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: trans deltaic | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 200 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 975, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 1398, Malema, RC11, Malema - RC11, | ||
| Database number: | 22559 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 2000-04-13 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-04-13 01:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5640. | ETE 1393 | O. Kullmar, O. Sandrock, R. Abel, F. Schrenk, T. Bromage and Y. Juwayeyi. 1999. The first Paranthropus from the Malawi Rift. Journal of Human Evolution 37:121-127 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |