East Turkana - Area 102 - Tulu Bor (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 273, Area 102 - Tulu Bor,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 35.9° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Tulu Bor Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Toroto and Burgi Tuffs 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: Lokeridede Lake Complex, pollen suggests littoral
• ETE rock type adj: med-coarse, ETE lithology comments: litharenites, fining-upward to yellow silts and brown claystones

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 2:1-321 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details

PaleoDB collection 21459: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 25.01.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa stillei2
Giraffa stillei2 Arambourg 1947 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Simatherium cf. kohllarseni3, Tragelaphini indet.3, Tragelaphus nakuae3, Reduncini indet.3, Megalotragus sp.3
Tragelaphini indet.3 Blyth 1863 antelope
Tragelaphini gen. and sp. indet.
Tragelaphus nakuae3 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Reduncini indet.3 Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
Reducini gen. and sp. indet.
Megalotragus sp.3 van Hoepen 1932 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
"Hexaprotodon protamphibius" = Hippopotamus protamphibius1
"Hexaprotodon protamphibius" = Hippopotamus protamphibius1 Arambourg 1944 hippo
 Tribosphenida - Sivatheridae
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium2
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium2 Pomel 1893 placental
1Harris 1991; 2Harris 1991; 3Harris 1991