Where: Kenya (0.1° S, 35.2° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 6.0° S, 34.6° E (Wright 2013)
When: Muhroni Agglomerates Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: "channel"; massive, volcaniclastic, yellow, calcareous sandstone
•"The Muhoroni Agglomerates are fine to coarse pyroclastic sands with gneissic cobbles and boulders up to 1 m in size, into which ephemeral channels were cut... The deposits range from off-white to yellow and pale brown, and they are at least 10 m in thickness and weakly bedded... Fossil root casts, leaves, and wood are common in the sediments, but vertebrate remains are rare... The channel [yielding the fossils] was filled with unbedded, partially calcified sandstone..." (Harrison and Andrews 2009)
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by M. Pickford, P. Andrews, T. Harrison in 1978 - 1980
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: M. R. Borths and N. J. Stevens. 2019. Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, gen. et sp. nov. (Hyainailourinae, Hyaenodonta, ‘Creodonta,’ Mammalia), a gigantic carnivore from the earliest Miocene of Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39(1):e1570222 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 220704: authorized by Graeme Lloyd, entered by Graeme Lloyd on 13.06.2021
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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Simbakubwa kutokaafrika n. gen. n. sp.
Simbakubwa kutokaafrika n. gen. n. sp. Borths and Stevens 2019 creodont KNM-ME 20A; KNM-ME 20B; KNM-ME 20AI; KNM-ME 12; KNM-ME 23; KNM-ME 22; KNM-ME 13; KNM-ME 20P; KNM-ME 20 AG; KNM-ME 20 AH
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