Also known as ETE Locality 209, Area 105 - KBS

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 36.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: KBS Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: ages based on KBS and Okote Tuffs radiometric intage_min

•KBS Tuff: 1.88 Ma (K/Ar + Ar/Ar); Okote Tuff: 1.64 +-0.3 (member goesfrom base of KBS to base of Okote)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, tuffaceous, intraclastic, silty, sandy siliciclastic sediments and poorly lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace, permineralized, original calcite, original sporopollenin, replaced with calcite, replaced with hematite

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, 121, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA

Primary reference: J. M. Harris. 1991. Koobi Fora Research Project, Vol III, The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls and Paleoenvironments. Oxford University Press, New York [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21396: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 12.02.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton and Philip Mannion

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