East Turkana - Area 106 - Upper Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 207, Area 106 - Upper Burgi,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Burgi Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Ages based on KBS and Lokalalei tuffs radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic in upper part of member
• ETE rock type adj: light-colored, ETE lithology comments: dark olive claystone, siltstone, fine-grained sediments

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 124, 123, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA

Primary reference: B. Wood. 1991. Koobi Fora Research Project: Hominid Cranial Remains. Oxford University Press, New York IV [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21394: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.01.1993

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982 monkey
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-E.Turkana