Bukwa
Basic information
Sample name: Bukwa
Reference: S. Cote, J. Kingston, A. Deino, A. Winkler, R. Kityo, and L. MacLatchy. 2018. Evidence for rapid faunal change in the early Miocene of East Africa based on revised biostratigraphic and radiometric dating of Bukwa, Uganda. Journal of Human Evolution 116:95-107 [ER 3995]
Geography
Country: Uganda
Coordinate: 1° 17' 6" N, 34° 47' 5" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Early Miocene
Min Ma: 19.16
Age basis: Ar-Ar
Geography comments: "on the northeastern slopes of the Mount Elgon volcano... approximately 2.25 miles east of the town of Bukwa"
"The site has two main fossil localities - Bukwa I and Bukwa II. Although Bukwa I was discovered first... almost all of the mammalian fossils were collected in subsequent years from the Bukwa II locality"
there is a more reliable Ar-Ar date of 19.16 +/- 0.14 Ma for a lava flow at the top of the section, plus an Ar-Art date of 19.0 +/- 1.1 Ma for another one at the bottom of the section that is not useful here
"The site has two main fossil localities - Bukwa I and Bukwa II. Although Bukwa I was discovered first... almost all of the mammalian fossils were collected in subsequent years from the Bukwa II locality"
there is a more reliable Ar-Ar date of 19.16 +/- 0.14 Ma for a lava flow at the top of the section, plus an Ar-Art date of 19.0 +/- 1.1 Ma for another one at the bottom of the section that is not useful here
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: lake deposit
Habitat comments: "Bukwa I is located on the southeastern slope of Kwongori Hill and consists primarily of paleosols that have produced few vertebrate fossils but numerous plant fossils. Bukwa II is comprised of a series of lacustrine horizons exposed in gullies at the base of the western side of Kwongori Hill" and specifically "a series of lacustrine claystones and siltstones, paleosols, and subaerial and epiclastic tuffs containing invertebrate, plant, and vertebrate fossils"
Methods
Life forms: primates,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals
Sampling methods: screenwash
Sample size: 85 specimens
Years: 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2015
Sampling comments: "a Makerere University expedition led by Walker and Henderson in December 1965 uncovered proboscidean remains at Bukwa I... The following year, Walker and Bishop visited the site and found additional fossils from a second collecting area located approximately 100 m away, which they designated Bukwa II. Excavations of the Bukwa II locality took place in 1967, 1968, and 1970... Pickford and colleagues from the Uganda Palaeontology Expedition visited Bukwa in 1997 and 1998 and collected plants, gastropods, and some mammals... We visited Bukwa in 2002, 2003, and 2015 to collect fossils and samples for radiometric dating. Our paleontological surface collections were augmented through wet-screening sediments from the green clay deposits in the upper portion of the lacustrine sequence at Bukwa II"
Metadata
Sample number: 4411
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Modifier no: John Alroy
Created: 2024-10-27 00:59:48
Modified: 2024-10-27 01:18:36
Abundance distribution
30 species
16 singletons
total count 85
geometric series index: 89.7
Fisher's α: 16.525
geometric series k: 0.9179
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.9315
Shannon's H: 3.0057
Good's u: 0.8129
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| †Myohyrax oswaldi | 4 | |
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| †Prodeinotherium hobleyi | 1 | |
| Gomphotheriidae indet. | 2 | |
| †Afrohyrax championi | 1 | |
| †Meroehyrax bateae | 1 | |
| Erinaceidae indet. | 1 | |
| Ochotonidae indet. | 1 | |
| Afrocricetodon songhori | 1 | |
| Megapedetes cf. pentadactylus | 1 | |
| Bathyergoides neotertiarius | 1 | |
| Ugandamys downsi | 6 | |
| †Paraphiomys pigotti | 7 | |
| Paraphiomys "small" | 4 | |
| †Paraphiomys cf. hopwoodi | 1 | |
| Lavocatomys sp. | 1 | |
| Diamantomys sp. | 1 | |
| †Chilidotheridium cf. pattersoni | 5 | |
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| †Brachypotherium heinzelini | 2 | |
| †Hyoboops ? africanus minimum | 1 | |
| †Diamantohyus africanus | 4 | |
| †Libycochoerus jeanneli | 1 | |
| "Listriodon (Libychochoerus) jeanneli": minimum count | ||
| Kenyasus sp. | 5 | |
| †Nguruwe kijivium | 1 | |
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| †Dorcatherium cf. parvum | 3 | |
| †Dorcatherium pigotti | 2 | |
| Tragulidae indet. | 1 | |
| large, not D. chappuisi | ||
| †Walangania africanus | 1 | |
| †Propalaeoryx nyanzae | 11 | |
| †Canthumeryx cf. sirtensis | 12 | |
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