DKI-Level 3: Gelasian, Tanzania
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio sp.
Erxleben 1777
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. oldowayensis
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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Potamochoerus infermedius
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Giraffa sp.
Brisson 1762
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Okapia sp.
Lankester 1901
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Mammalia
- Sivatheridae
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Sivatherium maurusium
(Pomel 1893)
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original and current combination Libytherium maurusium | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta sp.
Erxleben 1777
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Herpestes sp.
Illliger 1811
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium cf. bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Tanzania |
Coordinates: | 3.0° South, 35.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 3.1° South, 35.2° East |
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
*International age/stage: | Gelasian - Gelasian | ||
Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 1.80600 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Olduvai | Local bed: | I | ||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max=1.976+/-0.015(Tuff IA)min=1.859+/-0.007(Tuff IB) radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: clayey, ETE lithology comments: grey-buff colored | |||
Environment: | lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: "lg salne,alkaln lk" |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 12 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), KNM, TDA: Tennessee Division of Archaeology |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 1434, Douglas Korongo, Arch loc.22, Geol loc.13, DKI-Level 3, | ||
Database number: | 22594 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
Created: | 2000-06-28 01:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-06-28 01:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5271. | ETE 983 | M. D. Leakey. 1971. Olduvai Gorge: Excavations in Beds I and II, 1960-1963. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 3 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |