Where: Kenya (1.8° N, 36.6° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 35.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Namurungule Formation, Tortonian to Tortonian (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• The fossils was found lying on the surface of the outcrop

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Faunal set VI

Primary reference: H. Ishida and M. Pickford. 1997. A new late Miocene hominoid from Kenya: Samburupithecus kiptalami gen. et sp. nov. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Serie II 325(10):823-829 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28318: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Jill Wertheim on 06.02.2003

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