Lokone Hills 12 (Oligocene of Kenya)

Also known as LOK 12

Where: Kenya (2.2° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 31.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lokone Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• early late Oligocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, coarse-grained, quartzose sandstone

• coarse to very coarse, highly cemented quartz-rich sandstones forming decimeter-thick beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Lokone Paleontological Research Project in November–December 2007

Primary reference: S. Ducrocq, J.-R. Boisserie, J.-J. Tiercelin, C. Delmer, G. Garcia, M. F. Kyalo, M. G. Leakey, L. Marivaux, O. Otero, S. Peigné, P. Tassy and F. Lihoreau. 2010. New Oligocene vertebrate localities from Northern Kenya (Turkana basin). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):293-299 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174673: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Mammalia -
 Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Saghatheriinae indet. Andrews 1906 hyrax
 Proboscidea -
aff. Phiomia indet. Andrews and Beadnell 1902 proboscidean
 Creodonta -
aff. Masrasector sp. Simons and Gingerich 1974 creodont
 Creodonta - Hyainailouridae
Apterodon aff. gaudryi Fischer 1880 creodont
 Rodentia - Phiomyidae
Phiomyidae indet. Wood 1955 rodent
Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
? Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish
KNM LH 69320
 Actinopterygii -