Where: Kenya (2.3° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 1.2° N, 33.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Turkana Grit Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• K/Ar date of 16.7 +- 1.0

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: J. G. Mead. 1975. A fossil beaked whale (Cetacea: Ziphiidae) from the Miocene of Kenya. Journal of Paleontology 49(4):745-751 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57007: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.11.2005, edited by Philip Mannion

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