Also known as ETE Locality 1126, Baringo, MAS, Hominid Locality, M.A.S.,

Where: Kenya (0.5° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 36.0° E)

When: Middle Silts and Gravels Member (Kapthurin Formation), Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = .78 Ma;Min age = .25 +/- .12 Ma radiometric intage_min

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•Detailed tephrochronology reports can be found in Blegen et al. 2018 (A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa, Journal of Human Evolution) supporting Middle–Late Pleistocene age for the Kapthurin Fm.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 949, ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: F. L. Van Noten and B.A. Wood. 1985. A new hominid from Baringo,Kenya. LAnthropologie 89(1):141-143 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22302: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 05.08.1999

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