East Turkana - Area 203 - General (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 334, Area 203 - General,

Where: Kenya (3.8° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max = Lokochot Tuff (3.5 +-.10), Min = Galana Boi Formation radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 7

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21519: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 20.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Aepyceros shungurae
Aepyceros shungurae Gentry 1985 impala
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecus sp., Theropithecus brumpti
Cercopithecus sp. Linnaeus 1758 monkey
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: A-E.Turkana
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947 gelada