East Turkana - Area 124 - General (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 229, Area 124 - General,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: KBS Tuff and top of Chari Member 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: 200, 199, 198, 197, 196, 147, 146, 137, 131, 130, 126, ; 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 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21416: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.12.1992

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada