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 2:1-321 [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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cladistia | |
Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir | |
Actinopteri | |
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish | |
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates | |
Osteichthyes | |
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
Reptilia | |
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada | |
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"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis3
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Dinofelis barlowi Broom 1937 cat | |
Pseudocivetta sp. Petter 1963 civet |