East Turkana - Area 2 - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 256, Area 2 - Okote,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.3° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: KBS and Chari Tuffs radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shallow floodplain lake
• ETE rock type adj: red, ETE lithology comments: upward-fining cycles, analcimic, tuffaceous siltstone

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 298, ; 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

PaleoDB collection 21443: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 04.01.1993

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Sindacharax sp.
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Connochaetes gentryi
Connochaetes gentryi Harris 1991 wildebeest
 Carnivora - Felidae
cf. Megantereon sp.
cf. Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae
Actinopteri
 Characiformes - Alestidae
Hydrocynus sp.
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816
 Siluriformes - Mochokidae
Synodontis sp.
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp.
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish
 Siluriformes - Claroteidae
Clarotes sp.
Clarotes sp. Kner 1855 catfish
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Barbus sp.
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816 carp-like fish
 Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Lates sp.
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates