Olorgesailie - Upper Member 1: Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Phacocheorus sp.
Mammalia - Suidae
Metridiochoerus cf. andrewsi Hopwood 1926
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus gorgops Dietrich 1928
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Giraffa sp. Brisson 1762
unique to I3
Mammalia - Bovidae
Alcelaphus sp. Blainville 1816
Connochaetes sp. (Lichtenstein 1812)
Megalotragus sp. van Hoepen 1932
Redunca sp. Smith 1827
unique to I3
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
Pelorovis sp. Reck 1928
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Equus oldowayensis
Equus grevyi Oustalet 1882
recombined as Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi
Mammalia - Carnivora - Herpestidae
Herpestes ichneumon (Linnaeus 1758)
unique to site 15
Mungos sp. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire and Cuvier 1795
unique to HH
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
unique to HH
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecus sp. (Linnaeus 1758)
unique to HH
Theropithecus oswaldi (Andrews 1916)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 1.6° South, 36.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.6° South, 36.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Olorgesailie Member:1
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,yellow siltstone
Secondary lithology:diatomaceous,white siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "fine silt-sized grains, clay-sized particles in cutans of a weakley-modified soil, and fine sand. This is underlain by white laminated to massive diatomaceous siltstone" (Potts 1994) "yellow-brown to buff-white, rootmarked siltstone, typically 10-20cm thick ranging up to 120cm thick" (Potts 1999)
Environment:"channel" Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: Regressive phase followed by transgressive
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:anthropogenic,bone collector
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Hyena Hill (HH), Site 15, and I3
Database number:38039
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:V. Egerton
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:2004-04-01 09:50:47 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-01 09:50:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4918.ETE R. Potts. 1994. Variables versus models of early Pleistocene hominid land use. Journal of Human Evolution 27:7-24 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]

Secondary references:

10100ETE R. Potts, A. K. Behrensmeyer, and P. Ditchfield. 1999. Paleolandscape variation and Early Pleistocene hominid activities: Members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie Formation, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 37:747-788 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]