Also known as ETE Locality 271, Area 100 - Upper Burgi,
Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 36.1° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Burgi Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Lokalalei and KBS tuffs radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 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 21457: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 25.01.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
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Ceratotherium simum4 Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: germanoafricanum
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Bovidae indet.6, cf. Aepyceros sp.6, Aepyceros melampus6, Alcelaphini indet.6, Connochaetes gentryi6, Megalotragus isaaci6, Reduncini indet.6, Kobus sigmoidalis6, Kobus aff. leche6, Menelikia lyrocera6, Pelorovis turkanensis6, Tragelaphini indet.6, Tragelaphini indet.6, Tragelaphus strepsiceros6, Tragelaphus nakuae6, Gazella sp.6, Gazella praethomsoni6
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"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti3, Kolpochoerus limnetes3, Metridiochoerus modestus3, Metridiochoerus andrewsi3
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"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium5
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Actinopteri | |
Hydrocynus sp.7 Cuvier 1816 | |
Adenota | |
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6 Schwartz 1932 |