East Turkana - Area 106 - Upper Burgi: Gelasian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
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| ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Leakey 1982
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-E.Turkana | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 3.9° North, 36.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.8° North, 36.0° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle - 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
| Formation: | Koobi Fora | Member: | Upper Burgi | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Ages based on KBS and Lokalalei tuffs radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination,red or brown claystone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: light-colored, ETE lithology comments: dark olive claystone, siltstone, fine-grained sediments | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic in upper part of member | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 3 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 124, 123, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 207, Area 106 - Upper Burgi, | ||
| Database number: | 21394 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1993-01-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-01-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4733. | ETE 412 | B. Wood. 1991. Koobi Fora Research Project: Hominid Cranial Remains. Oxford University Press, New York IV [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |