East Turkana - Area 6 - Chari (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 264, ARea 6 - Chari,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Chari Tuff, top of Chari member radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: repetitive lacustrine deposition
• ETE rock type adj: coarse, tabular, ETE lithology comments: conglomerate, upward-fining cycles

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 88, ; ETE museum list: MUSEUMS OF, NATIONAL

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 21450: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 08.01.1993

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Sindacharax sp.
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum hipparionine horse
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis africana
Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959 whiptail stingray
ETE occurrence; species: A-E.Turkana