Koru Fauna Locality 29 (Miocene of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (0.2° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.3° S, 33.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Legetet Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"

• subaerial deposits of originally liquid and fragment types...near vent deposits
• Carbonatite units separated by weathered profiles and residual soils. Fossils occur only in the residual soils.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Pickford and P. Andrews. 1981. The Tinderet Miocene sequence in Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 10:11-33 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27858: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 14.01.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Gastropoda
 Stylommatophora - Achatinidae
Limicolaria sp. Schumacher 1817 slug
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Rodentia -
Phiomys andrewsi Osborn 1908 rodent
 Rodentia - Phiomyidae
Phiomyidae indet. Wood 1955 rodent
 Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergoides sp. Stromer 1923 mole rat
 Rodentia -
 Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Paraphiomys sp. Andrews 1914 cane rat
Paraphiomys pigotti Andrews 1914 cane rat
 Rodentia - Anomaluridae
Paranomalurus sp. Lavocat 1973 scaly-tailed squirrel
 Rodentia - Muridae
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
 Primates - Dendropithecidae
Dendropithecus sp. Andrews and Simons 1977 monkey
 Primates -
Hominoidea indet. Gray 1825 ape
 Primates - Proconsulidae
Proconsul major Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1950 ape
 Theriamorpha - Erinaceidae
Amphechinus sp. Aymard 1850 hedgehog
 Placentalia -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Artiodactyla -
 Artiodactyla - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium songhorensis Whitworth 1958 chevrotain
 Artiodactyla -
Walangania africanus Whitworth 1958 ruminant
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838 creodont
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Theriamorpha - Chrysochloridae
Prochrysochloris sp. Butler and Hopwood 1957 golden mole
 Macroscelidea - Rhynchocyonidae
Rhynchocyon sp. Peters 1847 elephant shrew
 Insectivora -
Insectivora indet. Bowdich 1821 insectivoran
Reptilia
 Ophidia -
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Gekkonidae indet. Gray 1825 gecko
 Squamata - Agamidae
Agamidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates
Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
 Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
cf. Accipiter tachiro Daudin 1800 African goshawk
 Life - Cricetodontidae