Also known as ETE Locality 309, Area 119 - KBS,
Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° 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: Max = KBS, Min = Okote tuffs
Environment/lithology: foreshore; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; ETE museum list: KNM
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 21495: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 22.04.1994
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sindacharax sp., Plesiocypris newtoni, Labeo sp., Hemicypris sp., Stenocypris sp., Distochodus sp., Sclerocypris clavularis
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Ostracoda | |
Cyprideis torosa ostracod | |
Cypris sp. Müller 1776 ostracod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
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Actinopteri | |
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816 | |
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish | |
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816 carp-like fish | |
Gymnarchus niloticus aba knifefish | |
Reptilia | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile | |
Mammalia | |
Hominidae indet., "Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine | |
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Pelorovis turkanensis6, Tragelaphini indet.6, Tragelaphus strepsiceros6, Reduncini indet.6, Menelikia lyrocera6, Kobus kob6, Kobus aff. leche6, Kobus sigmoidalis6, "Kobus ancystrocera" = Redunca ancystrocera6, Alcelaphini indet.6, Damaliscus eppsi
Damaliscus eppsi Harris 1991 antelope | |
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Adenota | |
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6 Schwartz 1932 |