East Turkana - Area 12 - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 286, Area 12 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° 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

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shallow floodplain lakes
• ETE rock type adj: arkosic, ETE lithology comments: mudstone, caliche

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21472: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 01.02.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum2 hipparionine horse
Equus sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes3 Hopwood 1926 pig
Metridiochoerus hopwoodi3 Leakey 1958 pig
Metridiochoerus andrewsi3 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4 Coryndon 1977 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphus nakuae6 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Tragelaphus strepsiceros6 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
aff. Tragelaphus strepsiceros6 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
"Tragelaphus aff. T. strepsiceros maryanus"
Pelorovis turkanensis6 Harris 1991 antelope
Aepyceros melampus6 Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Alcelaphini indet.6 Brookes 1876 antelope
Medium-sized Alcelaphini dentitions
Connochaetes gentryi6 Harris 1991 wildebeest
"Damaliscus eppsi" = Parmularius eppsi6 Harris 1991 antelope
Reduncini indet.6 Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
Reduncini gen. and sp. indet.
Kobus sigmoidalis6 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Menelikia lyrocera6 Arambourg 1941 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa stillei5 Arambourg 1947 giraffe
Giraffa pygmaea5 Harris 1976 giraffe
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.7 Gray 1825 ape
Hominidae gen. et sp. indet.
Homo sp.7 Linnaeus 1758 human
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
Adenota
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"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6 Schwartz 1932