East Turkana - Area 115 - Upper Burgi: Gelasian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Sindacharax sp.
Schwartz 1983
Labeo sp.
1 specimen
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959
ETE occurrence; species: A-E.Turkana
Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: B-E.Turkana
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontidae
Tetrodon sp. (Linnaeus 1758)
Schwartz 1983 4 specimens
original and current combination Tetraodon
Actinopteri - Characiformes - Alestidae
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816
Schwartz 1983
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Mochokidae
Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816
Schwartz 1983 4 specimens
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Gymnarchidae
Gymnarchus sp. Cuvier 1829
1 specimen
Cladistia - Polypteriformes - Polypteridae
Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803
Schwartz 1983
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bozasi Arambourg 1934
Harris 1983 2 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecoides williamsi Mollet 1947
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Australopithecus cf. boisei Leakey 1959
Isaac 1997 1 specimen
recombined as Paranthropus boisei
Homo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Isaac 1997 2 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Gazella praethomsoni Arambourg 1947
Harris 1991 1 specimen
Alcelaphini indet. Brookes 1876
Harris 1991 2 specimens
Small Alcelaphini dentitions
Megalotragus isaaci
2 specimens
Kobus sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941
Harris 1991 3 specimens
Hippotragus gigas Leakey 1965
Harris 1991 1 specimen
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941
Harris 1991 1 specimen
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)
Harris 1991 4 specimens
aff. Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Pallas 1766)
Harris 1991 3 specimens
"Tragelaphus aff. T. strepsiceros maryanus"
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes (Hopwood 1926)
Harris 1983 7 specimens
Metridiochoerus andrewsi Hopwood 1926
Harris 1983 3 specimens
Notochoerus scotti (Leakey 1943)
Harris 1983 4 specimens
original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti
Mammalia - Sivatheridae
Sivatherium maurusium (Pomel 1893)
Harris 1991 2 specimens
original and current combination Libytherium maurusium
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus koobiforensis
Eisenmann 1983 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 4.1° North, 36.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.7° North, 36.2° East
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Gelasian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval:Gelasian
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Koobi Fora Member:Upper Burgi
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Lokalalei and KBS Tuffs radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: limonite clast conglomerates
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, 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:551 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 223, 222, 221, 220, 219, 218, 217, 216, 184, 183, 158, 135, 133, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 233, Area 115 - Upper Burgi,
Database number:21420
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, V. Egerton
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1992-12-29 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1992-12-29 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4447.ETE 81M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

10216ETE V. Eisenmann. 1983. Family Equidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:156-214 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]
10214ETE J. M. Harris. 1983. Family Deinotheriidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:22-39 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]
10217ETE J. M. Harris. 1983. Family Suidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:215-302 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]
10321ETE J. M. Harris. 1991. Family Bovidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments 3:139-320 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]
10320ETE J. M. Harris. 1991. Family Giraffidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments 3:93-138 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]
8610ETE G. L. Isaac. 1997. Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 5 Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote]
4760ETE 445H. L. Schwartz. 1983. Paleoecology of Late Cenozoic Fishes from the Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya. [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]