Rusinga Island, Pleistocene: Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus crassidens n. sp.
MacInnes 1955
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MacInnes 1955 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 0.4° South, 34.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.5° South, 34.0° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 96048 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2010-05-07 13:23:15 | Last modified: | 2010-05-13 12:18:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-05-07 13:23:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 32592. | T. Lehmann. 2008. Plio-Pleistocene aardvarks (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Fossil Record 11(2):67-81 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 32624 | D. G. MacInnes. 1955. Fossil Tubulidentata from East Africa. Fossil Mammals of Africa 10:1-38 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 32614 | M. Pickford. 1975. New fossil Orycteropodidae (Mammalia, Tubulidentata) from East Africa. Orycteropus minutus sp. nov. and Orycteropus chemeldoi sp. nov. Netherlands Journal of Zoology 25(1):57-88 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |