Kanjera: Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus crassidens MacInnes 1955
MacInnes 1955 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 0.5° South, 34.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.6° South, 34.3° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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:96049
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-05-07 13:26:16 Last modified:2010-05-07 16:26:16
Access level:the public Released:2010-05-07 13:26:16
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]