East Turkana - Area 7 - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 266, Area 7 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.1° 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-lacustrine; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: ephemeral lacustrine
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: mudstone, caliche, fining-upward cycles

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 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21452: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 11.01.1993

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus koobiforensis1, Equus cf. koobiforensis1
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis2, Hippopotamus gorgops2
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis2 Coryndon 1977 hippo
Hippopotamus gorgops2 Dietrich 1928 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphini indet.3, Kobus kob3, Damaliscus eppsi3, Connochaetes gentryi3, Megalotragus isaaci3
Tragelaphini indet.3 Blyth 1863 antelope
Tragelaphini gen. and sp. indet.
Kobus kob3 Erxleben 1777 kob
Damaliscus eppsi3 Harris 1991 antelope
Connochaetes gentryi3 Harris 1991 wildebeest
1Eisenmann 1983; 2Harris 1991; 3Harris 1991