Mata Menge, 2004-05 excavations: Middle Pleistocene, Indonesia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Hooijeromys nusatenggara
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Stegodon florensis
(Hooijer 1957)
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Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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| "bird" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia sp.
(Owen 1842)
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| "crocodile" | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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| "freshwater gastropods" | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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| "plant remains" | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Indonesia | State/province: | East Nusa Tenggara | County: | Flores |
| Coordinates: | 8.7° South, 121.1° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.7° South, 121.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Chibanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Ola Bula | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "deposits... lie between two tuffaceous silts with ascending zircon fission-track age of 880 +/- 70 kyr and 800 +/- 70 kyr, respectively."
section is about 2 m thick and includes three main units, the lowest of which is not fossiliferous | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | tuffaceous,white siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fossils "concentrated on the interfaces between sandy lenses and overlying white tuffaceous silts." | |
| Environment: | lacustrine deltaic indet. |
| Geology comments: "deposite.. in a fluvio-lacustrine environment, probably by one of more distal volcanic fans entering a lake or small series of lakes." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 68069 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-01-01 20:26:18 | Last modified: | 2022-02-08 07:42:22 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-01-01 20:26:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19540. | A. Brumm, F. Aziz, G. D. Bergh, M. J. Morwood, M. W. Moore, I. Kurniawan, D. R. Hobbs and R. Fullagar. 2006. Early stone technology on Flores and its implications for Homo floresiensis. Nature 441:624-628 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |