Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Maximum age= 1.64 +/- 0.03 Ma (Base of Okote Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating);

•Minimum age = 1.4 Ma (Chari Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating).

•Datum plane is Conglomeratic sandstone with section extending -12.2 meters below datum plane.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, pebbly, tuffaceous, sandy, carbonaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

• Many bone fragments collected, very few identified. 88 are teeth and tooth fragments.

Primary reference: G. L. Isaac. 1997. Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 5 Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32088: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 04.06.2003

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