Also known as ETE Locality 259, Area 3 - Okote,
Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.0° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Okote Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Okote and Chari Tuffs
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, 122, 88, ; 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 2:1-321 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21445: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 08.01.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: recki
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Alcelaphini indet.6, Megalotragus isaaci6, Reduncini indet.6, Kobus sigmoidalis6, Kobus kob6, Gazella praethomsoni6, Tragelaphini indet.6, Pelorovis turkanensis6, Pelorovis oldowayensis6
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"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4, Hippopotamus gorgops4, Hexaprotodon aethiopicus4
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