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Other fossils collected on Maboko includes:^ref
* Mammals
** [[Blesmol|Mole rat]]: [[Bathyergidae]] indet.
** [[Hedgehog]]: [[Erinaceidae]]
** [[Hyrax]]: [[Megalohyrax]]
** [[Chalicothere]]: [[Chalicotheriidae]] indet.
** [[Giraffe]]: [[Palaeotragus]]
** [[Antelope]]: [[Eotragus]]
** [[Gazelle]]: [[Gazella]]
* Reptiles
** [[Crocodile]]: [[Crocodylus]]
** [[Heron]]: [[Ardeidae]] indet.
** [[Bird]]: [[Otididae]] indet.
** [[Crane (bird)|]]: [[Gruidae]] indet.
** [[Stone-curlew]]: [[Burhinidae]] indet.
** [[Sideneck turtle]]: [[Pelusios]]
** [[Softshell turtle]]: [[Trionyx]]
* Other:
** [[Land snail]]: [[Urocyclidae]] indet.

== See also ==

* [[Mfangano Island]]
* [[Rusinga Island]]

== Notes ==

{{Reflist}}

== References ==

{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite journal
 | last1 = Feibel | first1 = Craig S
 | last2 = Brown | first2 = Francis H
 | title = Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya
 | journal = Journal of Human Evolution | year = 1991 | volume = 21 | issue = 3 | pages = 221–5
 | doi = 10.1016/0047-2484(91)90063-2 | ref = harv}}
* {{Cite journal
 | last = Harrison | first = Terry 
 | title = New fossil anthropoids from the Middle Miocene of East Africa and their bearing on the origin of the Oreopithecidae
 | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | year = 1986 | volume = 71 | issue = 3 | pages = 265–84
 | url = http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/csho/Content/Facultycvandinfo/Harrison/1986%20Harrison%20Oreopithecidae.pdf
 | accessdate = December 2012
 | pmid = 3101504 | ref = harv}}
{{Refend}}

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[[Category:Islands of Kenya]]
[[Category:Islands of Lake Victoria]]
[[Category:Miocene paleontological sites of Africa]]

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{{Infobox islands
| name             = Maboko Island
| location         = Lake Victoria
| country          = Kenya
| area km2         = 
| length km        = 1,8
| width km         = 1
| elevation m      = 
}}
'''Maboko Island''' is a small island lying in the [[Winam Gulf]] of [[Lake Victoria]], in [[Nyanza Province]] of western [[Kenya]].  It is about 1.8 km long by 1 km wide.  It is an important [[Middle Miocene|Middle]] [[Miocene]] [[Paleontology|paleontological]] site with [[fossil]]iferous deposits that were discovered in the 1930s.  The age of the deposits is estimated to be {{Mya|15|16|million years}}, and they are especially important for the abundance of [[primate]] fossils they contain.<ref>{{Harvnb|Feibel|Brown|1991}}</ref>

==Excavations==
Miocene fossils in the [[fluvial]] deposits of Maboko was first discovered by [[Walter Edwin Owen|Archdeacon W.E. Owen]] in 1933, who started an excavation later that year which yielded a lot of vertebrate fossils.  Owen's excavations continued the following two years supervised by [[Donald Gordon MacInnes]].  Then few expeditions visited the island before MacInnes returned together with [[Louis Leakey]] in 1947.  These excavations resulted in a large number of craniodental (crania and teeth) remains of a medium seized [[cercopithecoid]] monkey and cranial and postcranial remains of a large [[Anthropoidea|anthropoid]] ape&nbsp;— later to become the [[holotype]]s ''[[Victoriapithecus|Victoriapithecus macinnesi]]'' and ''[[Sivapithecus|Sivapithecus africanus]]''.<ref name="Harrison">{{Harvnb|Harrison|1986| pp=265–6}}</ref>

Leakey and D.M.S. Watson returned to Maboko in 1949 to collect a large amount of specimen, including an isolated molar later attributed to ''[[Limnopithecus|Limnopithecus legetet]]''.  Leakey returned again in 1951 and found fossils of new holotypes: ''[[Victoriapithecus|Victoriapithecus leakeyi]]'', ''[[Mabokopithecus|Mabokopithecus clarki]]'', and ''[[Nyanzapithecus pickfordi]]''.<ref name="Harrison" />

An expedition in 1973 lead by D.R. Pilbeam resulted in over 80 primate specimen.  Most of them could be attributed to ''Victoriapithecus'' but some were assigned to new species.  In 1982 and 1983, [[Martin Pickford]] searched the deposit dumps left by Owen in 1933 and by Leakey in 1949 and unveiled over 500 isolated specimen of at least five antropoid primates, later assigned to ''[[Kenyapithecus|Kenyapithecus africanus]]''. ''Mabokopithecus clarki'', ''[[Micropithecus]]'', ''Victoriapithecus macinnesi'', and ''Nyanzapithecus pickfordi''.<ref name="Harrison" />

Other fossils collected on Maboko includes:<ref>{{Cite web
 | title = Maboko Island
 | publisher = The Paleobiology Database
 | url = http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=basicCollectionSearch&collection_no=22082
 | accessdate = December 2012}}</ref>
* Mammals
** [[Blesmol|Mole rat]]: ''[[Bathyergidae]] indet.''
** [[Hedgehog]]: ''[[Erinaceidae]]''
** [[Hyrax]]: ''[[Megalohyrax]]''
** [[Chalicothere]]: ''[[Chalicotheriidae]] indet.''
** [[Giraffe]]: ''[[Palaeotragus]]''
** [[Antelope]]: ''[[Eotragus]]''
** [[Gazelle]]: ''[[Gazella]]''
* Reptiles
** [[Crocodile]]: ''[[Crocodylus]]''
** [[Heron]]: ''[[Ardeidae]] indet.''
** [[Bird]]: ''[[Otididae]] indet.''
** [[Crane (bird)|Crane]]: ''[[Gruidae]] indet.''
** [[Stone-curlew]]: ''[[Burhinidae]] indet.''
** [[Sideneck turtle]]: ''[[Pelusios]]''
** [[Softshell turtle]]: ''[[Trionyx]]''
* Other:
** [[Land snail]]: ''[[Urocyclidae]] indet.''

==See also==
* [[Mfangano Island]]
* [[Rusinga Island]]

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite journal
 | last1 = Feibel | first1 = Craig S
 | last2 = Brown | first2 = Francis H
 | title = Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya
 | journal = Journal of Human Evolution | year = 1991 | volume = 21 | issue = 3 | pages = 221–5
 | doi = 10.1016/0047-2484(91)90063-2 | ref = harv}}
* {{Cite journal
 | last = Harrison | first = Terry <<link:0>>
 | title = New fossil anthropoids from the Middle Miocene of East Africa and their bearing on the origin of the Oreopithecidae
 | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | year = 1986 | volume = 71 | issue = 3 | pages = 265–84
 | url = http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/anthro/programs/csho/Content/Facultycvandinfo/Harrison/1986%20Harrison%20Oreopithecidae.pdf
 | accessdate = December 2012
 | pmid = 3101504 | ref = harv}}
{{Refend}}

{{coord|00|09|50|S|34|36|35|E|type:isle_region:KE|display=title}}

[[Category:Islands of Kenya]]
[[Category:Islands of Lake Victoria]]
[[Category:Miocene paleontological sites of Africa]]

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