Chamtwara (Miocene of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (0.2° S, 35.3° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 32.9° E)

When: Chamtwara Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• age noted as 19-20 Ma

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

• red paleosols developed on top of a karstified carbonitite tuff

Primary reference: M. Pickford. 2007. A new suiform (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of East Africa. Comptes Rendu Palevol 6(3):221-229 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77025: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 16.12.2007, edited by Jelle Zijlstra

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Kulutherium kenyensis Pickford 2007 hippopotamus
 Carnivora - Viverridae
Africanictis schmidtkittleri2 Morales et al. 1998 civet
Viverridae nov. sp. of Schmidt-Kittler (1987). KNM CA 303, P4, holotype; M1 with catalog number not given by Morales et al. 1998
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Hecubides euryodon1 Savage 1965 bear-dog