Also known as ETE Locality 347, Area 8B - KBS,
Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° 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+-.02ma), Min = Okote Tuff (1.64+-.03ma) radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone
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 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21532: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.05.1994, edited by Victoria Egerton
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Ceratotherium simum3 Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: germanoafricanum
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"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4
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Pelorovis turkanensis6, Aepyceros melampus6, Reduncini indet.6, Kobus kob6, Kobus aff. leche6, Kobus sigmoidalis6, "Kobus ancystrocera" = Redunca ancystrocera6, Alcelaphini indet.6, Alcelaphini indet.6, Damaliscus eppsi6
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"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium5
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Adenota | |
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6 Schwartz 1932 |