Also known as Nakwai, Loperot

Where: Rift Valley, Kenya (2.3° N, 35.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.2° S, 35.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Originally interpreted as late Oligocene in age, based on biostratigraphic correlation of its mammalian fauna (Rasmussen and Gutierrez, 2009). More recently, the site was radiometrically dated to approximately 22 Ma (earliest Miocene) by Rasmussen et al. (2019).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Benson Kyongo in 1987 and 1992

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: D. T. Rasmussen and M. Gutierrez. 2009. A Mammalian Fauna from the Late Oligocene of Northwestern Kenya. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 288(1-3):1-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174664: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2015

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