Also known as ETE Locality 212, Area 105 - General
Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 36.0° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: indet Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: age from Lokalalei and Okote tuffs, based on specimens recovered from this area from other members radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, 121, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
Primary reference: I. McDougall. 1985. K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96:159-175 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21399: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 12.02.1993, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Crocuta cf. crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
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Pseudocivetta sp. Petter 1963 civet | |
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cf. Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat | |
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cf. Aonyx sp. Lesson 1827 clawless otter | |
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas
"Canis mesomelas" = Lupulella mesomelas Schreber 1775 black-backed jackal | |
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Metridiochoerus andrewsi Hopwood 1926 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig | |
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Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Papionini-small
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada | |