Also known as ETE Locality 891, 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; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Primary reference: M. Pickford. 1992. Evidence for an arid climate in western Uganda during the middle Miocene. Comptes Rendus Acad. des Sci.,serie II 315(11):1419-1424 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22070: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 24.02.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aves | |
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Phasianidae indet. Horsfield 1821 pheasant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Phasianidae
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Bucerotidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 hornbill ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bucerotidae
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Burhinidae indet. Mathews 1912 stone-curlew ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Burhinidae
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Reptilia | |
Varanidae indet. Hardwicke and Gray 1824 monitor lizard ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Varanidae
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Mammalia | |
"Pachyhyrax championi" = Afrohyrax championi
"Pachyhyrax championi" = Afrohyrax championi Arambourg 1933 hyrax | |
Prodeinotherium hobleyi Andrews 1911 deinothere | |
Protanancus macinnesi Arambourg 1945 gomphothere | |
Dissopsalis pyroclasticus Savage 1965 creodont | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae
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"Libycochoerus khinzikebirus" = Megalochoerus khinzikebirus, Listriodon akatikubas, Lopholistriodon sp.
"Libycochoerus khinzikebirus" = Megalochoerus khinzikebirus Wilkinson 1976 pig
Listriodon akatikubas Wilkinson 1976 pig
Lopholistriodon sp. Pickford and Wilkinson 1975 pig | |
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Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth 1958 chevrotain | |
Canthumeryx sirtensis Hamilton 1973 giraffe | |
Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939 antelope | |
Climacoceras africanus MacInnes 1936 even-toed ungulate | |
"Kenyapithecus africanus" = Equatorius africanus
"Kenyapithecus africanus" = Equatorius africanus Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951 ape | |
Limnopithecus legetet Hopwood 1933 ape
Kenyapithecus wickeri Leakey 1961 ape | |
cf. Nyanzapithecus pickfordi Harrison 1986 ape | |
Victoriapithecus sp., "Victoriapithecus macinnesi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi, "Victoriapithecus leakeyi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi
Victoriapithecus sp. von Koenigswald 1969 monkey
"Victoriapithecus macinnesi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969 monkey
"Victoriapithecus leakeyi" = Victoriapithecus macinnesi von Koenigswald 1969 monkey |