East Turkana - Area 202 - Tulu Bor (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 345, Area 202 - Tulu Bor,

Where: Kenya (3.8° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.6° N, 36.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Tulu Bor Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tulu Bor Tuff (3.36+-.04ma), Min = Burgi Tuff (2.68+-.06ma) 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: floodplain lakes
• ETE rock type adj: medium-fine, ETE lithology comments: mudstones, basal conglomerate, fining-upward cycles

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

PaleoDB collection 21530: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.05.1994, edited by Victoria Egerton

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecoides kimeui Leakey 1982 monkey
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa sp.3 Brisson 1762 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Parmularius cf. angusticornis4 Schwarz 1937 antelope
Reduncini indet.4 Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
Reducini gen. and sp. indet.
Kobus oricornis4 antelope
Kobus aff. kob1 Erxleben 1777 kob
Kobus sigmoidalis4 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Menelikia leakeyi4 Harris 1991 antelope
"Kobus ancystrocera" = Redunca ancystrocera4 Arambourg 1947 reedbuck
Tragelaphini indet.4 Blyth 1863 antelope
Tragelaphini gen. and sp. indet.
Tragelaphus nakuae4 Arambourg 1941 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
 Theriamorpha - Sivatheridae
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium3
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium3 Pomel 1893 placental
Adenota
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"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki4
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki4 Schwartz 1932