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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4
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Tragelaphus nakuae6, Tragelaphus strepsiceros6, aff. Tragelaphus strepsiceros6, Pelorovis turkanensis6, Aepyceros melampus6, Alcelaphini indet.6, Connochaetes gentryi6, "Damaliscus eppsi" = Parmularius eppsi6, Reduncini indet.6, Kobus sigmoidalis6, Menelikia lyrocera6
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"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
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"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6 Schwartz 1932 |