East Turkana - Area 130 - Okote: Calabrian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Damaliscus sp.
Sclater and Thomas 1894
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-E.Turkana | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 4.2° North, 36.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.1° North, 36.3° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *International age/stage: | Calabrian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Koobi Fora | Member: | Okote | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Okote Tuff, min = Chari Tuff radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | mudstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: conglomerate, caliche, pumiceous sands | |||
| Environment: | fluvial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: complex of small fluvial channels | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; ETE museum list: KNM | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 315, Area 130 - Okote, | ||
| Database number: | 21501 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1993-06-10 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-06-10 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4469. | ETE 104 | J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton] |
Secondary references:
| 10321 | ETE | 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] |