Fort Ternan (Miocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 537, Fort Ternan,

Where: Kenya (0.2° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 33.6° E)

When: Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: 0. Fort Ternan beds, Middle Miocene (14 Mya; Pickford 1986)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 104, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: K. P. Oakley, B. G. Campbell, and T. I. Molleson. 1977. Catalogue of Fossil Hominids [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 21719: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.08.1995, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus chemeldoi1
Orycteropus chemeldoi1 Pickford 1975 aardvark
Aves
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
cf. Aegypius monachus2
cf. Aegypius monachus2 Linnaeus 1766 cinereous vulture
1Pickford 1975; 2Walker and Dyke 2006