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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Taxonomic list
Cladistia | |
Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir | |
Actinopteri | |
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates | |
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish | |
Osteichthyes | |
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
Reptilia | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile | |
Mammalia | |
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada | |
Pseudocivetta sp. Petter 1963 civet | |
Crocuta cf. crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena |