East Turkana - Area 11 - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 282, Area 11 - 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: wet floodplain; mudstone

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

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 106, ; 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 21468: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.01.1993

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum1
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum1 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes2, Metridiochoerus compactus2, Metridiochoerus hopwoodi2
Kolpochoerus limnetes2 Hopwood 1926 pig
Metridiochoerus compactus2 Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932 pig
Metridiochoerus hopwoodi2 Leakey 1958 pig
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.3, "Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei3
Hominidae indet.3 Gray 1825 ape
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei3 Leakey 1959 australopithecine
1Eisenmann 1983; 2Harris 1983; 3Isaac 1997