East Turkana - Area 3 - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 258, Area 3 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.0° 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

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lacustrine = ephemeral events
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: detrital clastic and bioclastic units, sand

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 234, ; 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 21444: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 08.01.1993

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa sp.1
Giraffa sp.1 Brisson 1762 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Pelorovis oldowayensis2
Pelorovis oldowayensis2 Reck 1928 antelope
1Harris 1991; 2Harris 1991