East Turkana - Area 8 - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 269, Area 8 - Okote,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

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

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: dry_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shallow floodplain lake
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: upward-fining cycles, analcimic, tuffaceous siltstones with paleosols

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 124, 123, 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 21455: 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
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum1, Equus indet.1
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum1 hipparionine horse
Equus indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus gorgops3
Hippopotamus gorgops3 Dietrich 1928 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Metridiochoerus compactus2, Kolpochoerus limnetes2
Metridiochoerus compactus2 Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes2 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.4, "Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei4, "Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei4, Homo sp.4, Homo aff. erectus4
Hominidae indet.4 Gray 1825 ape
Hominidae gen. et sp. indet.
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei4 Leakey 1959 australopithecine
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei4 Leakey 1959 australopithecine
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu stricto
Homo sp.4 Linnaeus 1758 human
Homo aff. erectus4 Dubois 1892 human
1Eisenmann 1983; 2Harris 1983; 3Harris 1991; 4Isaac 1997