Also known as ETE Locality 778, Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter,
Where: Kenya (1.3° S, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 36.2° E)
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Holocene; 32 RC dates, 30 on harcoal and 2 on ostrich eggshell radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 489, 487, 482, 481, 479, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: C. W. Marean, N. Mudida, and K. E. Reed. 1994. Holocene Paleoenvironmental Change in the Kenyan Central Rift Indicated by Micromammals from Enkapune Ya Muto Rockshelter. Quaternary Research 41:376-389 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 21959: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.05.1997, edited by John Damuth and Richard Potts
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
Elephantulus brachyrhynchus Smith 1834 Short-snouted elephant shrew | |
Sylvicapra grimmia Linnaeus 1758 common duiker
Tragelaphus scriptus Pallas 1766 bushbuck | |
Crocidura sp. Wagler 1832 white-toothed shrew | |
Tachyoryctes splendens Rüppell 1835 Northeast african mole rat | |
Dendromus sp. Smith 1829 African climbing mice | |
Thamnomys rutilans, Lophuromys flavopunctatus, Arvicanthis niloticus, Praomys jacksoni, Lemniscomys sp., Dasymys incomtus, Otomys irroratus
Arvicanthis niloticus grass rat
Praomys jacksoni African soft-furred rat ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: or natalensis
Lemniscomys sp. Trouessart 1881 striped grass mouse
Dasymys incomtus mouse
Otomys irroratus mouse | |
Mylomys | |