Also known as ETE Locality 190, Area 106 - KBS,
Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.0° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: KBS Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: KBS and Chari Tuffs - ages radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; burrowed sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 124, 123, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
Primary reference: J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2:1-321 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21378: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 25.03.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ceratotherium simum2 Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: germanoafricanum
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Hexaprotodon aethiopicus3, "Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis3, Hippopotamus gorgops3
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Pelorovis oldowayensis5, Gazella sp.5, Aepyceros melampus5, "Damaliscus eppsi" = Parmularius eppsi5, Reduncini indet.5, Kobus sigmoidalis5, Menelikia lyrocera5
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Adenota | |
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki5
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki5 Schwartz 1932 |