East Turkana - Area 6A - Chari (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 342, Area 6A - Chari,

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

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Chari Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Chari Tuff (1.39+-.02ma), Min = top of Chari member (.74+-.01ma) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 17 meandering river
• ETE rock type adj: coarse, ETE lithology comments: claystone, upward fining cycles

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: ; 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 21527: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 16.05.1994

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus cf. grevyi" = Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi1, Hipparion sp.1
"Equus cf. grevyi" = Equus (Dolichohippus) grevyi1 Oustalet 1882 Grevy's zebra
Hipparion sp.1 de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
H. sp. A
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus gorgops2
Hippopotamus gorgops2 Dietrich 1928 hippo
1Eisenmann 1983; 2Harris 1991