Also known as ETE Locality 311, Area 120 - General,
Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.2° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = KBS tuff, min = top of Chari member, ages taken from other members from which fauna has been collected
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•see McDougall abd Brown 2006 for detailed breakdown of 40Ar/39Ar dated tuff layers in Koobi Fora Formation.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Primary reference: I. McDougall. 1985. K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96:159-175 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21497: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 03.06.1993
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Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
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Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile | |
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Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
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Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
| Actinopteri | |
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Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates | |
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Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish | |
| Cladistia | |
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Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir | |