Also known as ETE Locality 541, Napak II, VIII, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX
Where: Uganda (2.1° N, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° N, 31.8° E)
When: Iriri Member, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0
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Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone and conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 104, ; ETE museum list:
•Collection includes sublocalities: II, VIII, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX
Primary reference: W. W. Bishop and J. D. Clark. 1965. Background to Evolution in Africa. University of Chicago Press, Chicago [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 21723: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.08.1995, edited by Jill Wertheim
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Trochozonites sp. Pfeffer 1883 slug | |
Achatina leakeyi slug | |
Viviparidae indet. Gray 1847 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Unionidae indet. Rafinesque 1820 freshwater mussel | |
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Mammalia | |
Diamantomys luederitzi rodent | |
Megapedetes pentadactylus springhare | |
Diamantohyus africanus Stromer 1926 ruminant | |
Dicerorhinus leakeyi rhinoceros | |
"Megalohyrax championi" = Afrohyrax championi
"Megalohyrax championi" = Afrohyrax championi Arambourg 1933 hyrax |