Also known as ETE Locality 227, Area 123 - General,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.3° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Lokalalei and Okote Tuffs, ages based on other members from which fauna has been collected

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•see McDougall abd Brown 2006 for detailed breakdown of 40Ar/39Ar dated tuff layers in Koobi Fora Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 195, 194, 193, 192, 191, 190, 189, 188, 187, 186, 185, 184, 183, 182, 181, 180, 179, 178, 177, 176, 175, 174, 173, 172, 171, 170, 169, 168, 167, 166, 165, 164, 163, 162, 161, 160, 159, 126, 125, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA

Primary reference: M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21414: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.12.1992

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