East Turkana - Area 129 - General (Pliocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 218, Area 129 - General,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.1° 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: 824.35=base of sequence which lies on an unconformity, other date is from Chari Tuff radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: .

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 128, 125, ; 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 21405: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.12.1992

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae