East Turkana - Area 8B - KBS (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

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

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: ephmeral lacustrine
• ETE rock type adj: bioclastic, ETE lithology comments: mudstone

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum3 Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: germanoafricanum
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. ethiopicum1 hipparionine horse
Hipparion sp.1 de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
H. sp. B
Equus indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4
"Hexaprotodon karumensis" = Hippopotamus karumensis4 Coryndon 1977 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffa stillei5 Arambourg 1947 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Pelorovis turkanensis6 Harris 1991 antelope
Aepyceros melampus6 Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Reduncini indet.6 Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
Reduncini gen. and sp. indet.
Kobus kob6 Erxleben 1777 kob
Kobus aff. leche6 Gray 1850 antelope
Kobus sigmoidalis6 Arambourg 1941 antelope
"Kobus ancystrocera" = Redunca ancystrocera6 Arambourg 1947 reedbuck
Alcelaphini indet.6 Brookes 1876 antelope
Medium-sized Alcelaphini dentitions
Alcelaphini indet.6 Brookes 1876 antelope
Small Alcelaphini dentitions
Damaliscus eppsi6 Harris 1991 antelope
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Metridiochoerus hopwoodi2 Leakey 1958 pig
Metridiochoerus andrewsi2 Hopwood 1926 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes2 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Theriamorpha - Sivatheridae
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium5
"Sivatherium maurusium" = Libytherium maurusium5 Pomel 1893 placental
Adenota
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"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6
"Antidorcas recki" = Adenota recki6 Schwartz 1932