East Turkana - Area 115 - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 232, Area 115 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: KBS and Okote tuffs radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: complex of fluvial systems, ephemeral lacustrine
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: mudstones, caliche

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 215, 201, 132, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA

Primary reference: I. McDougall. 1985. K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96:159-175 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21419: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 21.12.1992

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae