Also known as ETE Locality 341, Area 6A - General,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 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: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 374, 334, 333, 332, 331, 285, ; 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 21526: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.05.1994

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