Also known as Muruarot; west of Lake Turkana

Where: Northern Frontier District, Kenya (3.2° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 33.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kalodirr Member (Lothidok Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• late Early Miocene (Burdigalian) dated to 17.5 (± 0.2) Ma - 16.8 (± 0.2) Ma (Boschetto et al., 1992); previously listed as Losodok Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy volcaniclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

• Flink et al. 2021: discovered in 2016 during excavations by the West Turkana Miocene Project

Primary reference: R. J. G. Savage. 1965. Fossil Mammals of Africa: 19 The Miocene Carnivora of East Africa. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Geology 10(8):241-316 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 122454: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.12.2011, edited by Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion and Grace Varnham

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