East Turkana - Area 130 - General (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 314, Area 130 - General,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = Lokochot Tuff, min = top of Chari member, dates from other members from which fauna was collected

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: 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 21500: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 10.06.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey
ETE occurrence; species: Papionini-small
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Colobinae
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
Cercopithecoides sp. Mollett 1947 monkey
ETE occurrence; species: sp.nov.-E.Turkana
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Pseudocivetta sp. Petter 1963 civet
 Carnivora - Felidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphus strepsiceros4 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
aff. Tragelaphus strepsiceros4 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
"Tragelaphus aff. T. strepsiceros maryanus"
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes2 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis3
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis3 Coryndon 1977 hippo
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 horse
Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish
Cladistia
 Polypteriformes - Polypteridae
Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish