East Turkana - Area 101 - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 272, Area 101 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.0° 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 radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: ephemeral, shallow lacustrine
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: bioclastic carbonates, mudstones, pedogenesis

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 124, 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 21458: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 25.01.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bozasi2 Arambourg 1934 deinothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 horse
Hipparion sp.1 de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
H. sp. B
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum1 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Metridiochoerus compactus3 Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932 pig
Metridiochoerus andrewsi3 Hopwood 1926 pig
Metridiochoerus hopwoodi3 Leakey 1958 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes3 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa sp.4 Brisson 1762 giraffe
Giraffa jumae4 Leakey 1967 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Aepyceros melampus5 Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Alcelaphini indet.5 Brookes 1876 antelope
Medium-sized Alcelaphini dentitions
Beatragus antiquus5 Leakey 1965 hirola
Connochaetes gentryi5 Harris 1991 wildebeest
Damaliscus eppsi5 Harris 1991 antelope
Kobus kob5 Erxleben 1777 kob
Kobus sigmoidalis5 Arambourg 1941 antelope
"Kobus ancystrocera" = Redunca ancystrocera5 Arambourg 1947 reedbuck
Oryx sp.5 de Blainville 1816 oryx
Pelorovis turkanensis5 Harris 1991 antelope
Tragelaphus strepsiceros5 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
 Theriamorpha - Sivatheridae
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium4
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium4 Pomel 1893 placental
Adenota
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"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki5
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki5 Schwartz 1932