East Turkana - Area 8B - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 348, Area 8B - Okote,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Okote Tuff (1.64+-.03ma), Min = Top of Chari member (.74+-.01ma) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: red, analcimic, ETE lithology comments: brown mudstones

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

PaleoDB collection 21533: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.05.1994

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes, Metridiochoerus compactus
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig
Metridiochoerus compactus Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932 pig