Also known as ETE Locality 336, Area 8A - KBS,
Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° 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 Tuff (1.88+-.02), Min - Okote Tuff (1.64+-.03)
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; burrowed sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 88, ; 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 21521: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 20.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ileretensis
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Alcelaphini indet.6, Alcelaphini indet.6, Damaliscus eppsi6, Reduncini indet.6, Kobus kob6, Kobus aff. leche6, Tragelaphus strepsiceros6, Pelorovis turkanensis6
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