Also known as ETE Locality 888, Niveaux tufaces, Ishango - N. Tuf.,
Where: Congo-Kinshasa (0.1° S, 29.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 29.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Niveaux tufaces. "Wetter climatic conditions can be invoked to explain the appearance of two new and more water-dependent ruminants in the area, kob and African buffalo. Furthermore, if Bagu s arrived in Lake Rutanzige via the Semliki river after the formation of the older deposits, its appearance may perhaps be indicative for a more or less permanent high water level of the river. It may have enabled Bagrus to pass obstacles such as the rapids, which today seem to prevent Lake Rutanzige from being recolonised by fish living in the Lower Semliki and in Lake Mobutu. The foregoing assumptions, combined with the fact that high lake levels and considerable erosional processes took place after the formation of the Ishango horizons, suggest that this second stage may have coincided, at least partially, with the early Holocene wet period."
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age = 21,000 +/- 500 (~10.5 cm above lake at Is11). Min age = 6890 +/- 75 (charcoal in Katwe Ash)." radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 485, 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, 454, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: J. Peters. 1990. Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence. Revue de Paléobiologie 9(1):73-112 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 22067: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 24.02.1999, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lycaon pictus Temminck 1820 African wild dog | |
Bovidae indet., Bovidae spp., Alcelaphini indet., Alcelaphus buselaphus, Damaliscus lunatus, Kobus ellipsiprymnus, Redunca redunca, Pelorovis antiquus, Syncerus caffer
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766 hartebeest
Damaliscus lunatus Burchell 1823 common tsessebe
Kobus ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833 waterbuck
Pelorovis antiquus Duvernoy 1851 antelope | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog
Potamochoerus porcus Linnaeus 1758 red river hog | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
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Gyraulus costulatus, Burnupia cf. edwardiana, Bulinus truncatus, Ceratophallus kigeziensis, Ceratophallus faini, Ceratophallus bicarinatus, Ceratophallus apertus, Biomphalaria choanomphala, Biomphalaria sudanica
Burnupia cf. edwardiana Pilsbry and Bequaert 1927 snail ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
Ceratophallus bicarinatus Mandahl-Barth 1954 snail ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
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Pisidium cf. victoriae Mandahl-Barth 1954 pea clam ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
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Coelatura acuminata Adams 1866 freshwater mussel ETE qualitative abundance; species: mak - name shift
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