East Turkana - Area 125 - General (Pliocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 230, Area 125 - General,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.5° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° 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: .

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: 201, 132, 129, ; 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 21417: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.12.1992

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecoides sp. Mollett 1947 monkey
ETE occurrence; species: sp.nov.-E.Turkana
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
 Carnivora - Felidae
cf. Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat