East Turkana - Area 120 - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 310, Area 120 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.2° 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 Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: foreshore; burrowed sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: beach ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: mudstone, caliche

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 21496: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 03.06.1993

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Piscichnus brownii
Piscichnus brownii
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: fish nest
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa stillei1
Giraffa stillei1 Arambourg 1947 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Aepyceros melampus2, Kobus sigmoidalis2, Menelikia lyrocera2, Oryx sp.2, Hippotragus gigas2, Tragelaphus strepsiceros2
Aepyceros melampus2 Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Kobus sigmoidalis2 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Menelikia lyrocera2 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Oryx sp.2 de Blainville 1816 oryx
Hippotragus gigas2 Leakey 1965 antelope
Tragelaphus strepsiceros2 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
1Harris 1991; 2Harris 1991