Liang Bua Sector IV, 4.5 m depth: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Indonesia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Stegodon sp. Falconer 1857
molar
see common names

Geography
Country:Indonesia State/province:East Nusa Tenggara County:Flores
Coordinates: 8.5° South, 120.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:8.5° South, 120.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:500 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Stegodon molar has a coupled ESR/uranium series age of 74 kyr
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: none given, but sediments in Sector VII are silt, clay, and rockfall
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Metadata
Database number:68057
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-12-30 21:45:16 Last modified:2006-12-30 23:46:49
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-30 21:45:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19516. M. J. Morwood, R. P. Soejono, R. G. Roberts, T. Sutikna, C. S. M. Turney, K. E. Westaway, W. J. Rink, J.-x. Zhao, G. D. Bergh, Rokus Awe Due, D. R. Hobbs, M. W. Moore, M. I. Bird and L. K. Fifield. 2004. Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia. Nature 431:1087-1091 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]