Kathwanga (Miocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 156, Kaswanga Primate Site, R5 (part)

Where: Rusinga Island, Kenya (0.4° S, 34.2° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 32.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Fossil Bed Member (Hiwegi Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Kisingiri sequence deposited during an interval of less than 0.5 million years and c. 17.8 Ma ago. radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; lithified, tuffaceous siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: ., ETE env comment: rapid, low-energy channelfill
• ETE rock type adj: tuffaceous, ETE lithology comments: also clay; carbonate-rich; "red bed in upper part of Kathwanga Series"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: L. S. B. Leakey. 1968. Lower dentition of Kenyapithecus africanus. Nature 217:827-830 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21357: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 14.06.1991, edited by John Alroy

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: Mammalia
 Primates - Proconsulidae
Proconsul cf. africanus
Proconsul cf. africanus Hopwood 1933 ape