West Turkana - Lower Lomekwi region: Gelasian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya State/province:Rift Valley County:West Turkana
Coordinates: 3.9° North, 35.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.8° North, 35.5° East
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Pliocene - Late/Upper Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Nachukui Member:Lomekwi
Local bed:above Tulu Bor Tuff
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: between Lokalalei Tuff (2.52 +/- 0.05) and Tulu Bor Tuff (3.36 +/- 0.04); most fossils from near Tulu Bor Tuff radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: 1202 facies - "volcanic clast conglomerates & poorly-sorted, sandy siltstones" & "sandstones grading upward into silt & clay
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: numerous fining-upward cycles
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:0 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 6, ; ETE museum list: KENYA N.M.
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 78, Lower Lomekwi region,
Database number:21281
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:V. Egerton
Created:1992-04-01 00:00:00 Last modified:2004-04-06 15:38:32
Access level:the public Released:1992-04-01 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4454.ETE 88J. M. Harris, F.H. Brown, and M.G. Leakey. 1988. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 399:1-128 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]