Maboko Island - Maboko fm. (Miocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 903, Kiboko, Maboko Island - Maboko fm.,

Where: Kenya (0.2° N, 34.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 32.9° E)

When: Maboko Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Min age = 13.8 +/- .04 Ma (Bed 8 Tuff). Max age = ~17 Ma (based on biostratigraphy) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; tuff

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: very wet floodplain
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "massive muds and silts, calcretes, altered and unaltered tuffs"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 522, 521, 488, 487, 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: A. J. Winkler. 1997. Systematics, Paleobiogeography, and Paleoenvironmental Significance of Rodents from the Ibole Member, Manonga Valley, Tanzania. In T. Harrison (ed.), Neogene Paleontology of the Manonga Valley, Tanzania. Plenum Press, New York and London 311-332 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22082: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 25.02.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Indet. Urocyclidae
ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergidae indet. Waterhouse 1841 mole rat
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bathyergidae
 Primates - Dendropithecidae
Micropithecus leakeyorum n. sp. Harrison 1989 monkey
provenance "Maboko Main" according to Harrison 1989; originally tied to reference 5292
 Primates - Victoriapithecidae
cf. Victoriapithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1969 monkey
Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969 monkey
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cercopithecidae
 Primates - Hominidae
cf. Kenyapithecus sp. Leakey 1961 ape
 Primates -
"Kenyapithecus africanus" = Equatorius africanus, "Kenyapithecus cf. africanus" = Equatorius africanus
"Kenyapithecus africanus" = Equatorius africanus Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951 ape
"Kenyapithecus cf. africanus" = Equatorius africanus Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951 ape
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Erinaceidae
 Perissodactyla - Chalicotheriidae
Chalicotheriidae indet. Gill 1872 chalicothere
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Chalicotheriidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
cf. Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816 gazelle
cf. Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
cf. Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861 giraffe
 Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
cf. Megalohyrax sp. Andrews 1903 hyrax
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Pachyhyrax championi?
Reptilia
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Testudines - Pelomedusidae
cf. Pelusios sp. Wagler 1830 sideneck turtle
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Burhinidae
cf. Burhinidae indet. Mathews 1912 stone-curlew
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: cf. Burhinidae
 Gruiformes - Gruidae
Gruidae indet. Vigors 1825 crane
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Gruidae
 Otidiformes - Otididae
Otididae indet. Gray 1840 bird
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Otididae
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardeidae indet. Leach 1820 heron
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Ardeidae (4 species)