Also known as ETE Locality 337, Area 8A - General,
Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max = KBS Tuff (1.88+-.02ma). min = top of Chari Member (.74 +-.01ma)
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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: bulk, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 88, ; 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 21522: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.05.1994
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Taxonomic list
| Actinopteri | |
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Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish | |
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Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates | |
| Cladistia | |
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Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
| Reptilia | |
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Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile | |
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Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
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Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
| Mammalia | |
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Cercocebus sp. Geoffroy 1812 monkey
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
Colobus sp. Illiger 1811 monkey | |