East Turkana - Muruyur beds: Langhian - Serravallian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Tilapia sp.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
ETE occurrence; species: Plantae
Angiospermae - Asparagales - Agavaceae
Dracaena sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda - Bithyniidae
Gabbiella indet. Prudhoe 1989
ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Carinatus carinatus
Mammalia - Rodentia
Diamantomys luederitzi
originally entered as "Diamantomys leuderitzi"
Mammalia - Primates
Hominoidea indet. Gray 1825
ETE occurrence; species: Hominoidea
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aceratherium acutirostratum
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
ETE occurrence; species: Tayassuidae
Mammalia - Suidae
Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Morotochoerus ugandensis Pickford 1998
Pickford 1998
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae
Protragocerus sp. Deperet 1887
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus sp. Gaudry 1861
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae indet. Haeckel 1886
ETE occurrence; species: Amphicyonid lg
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium hobleyi (Andrews 1911)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Zygolophodon sp. (Vacek 1877)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon kisumuensis Picford 2001
recombined as Afrochoerodon kisumuensis
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae
Pelusios sp. Wagler 1830
Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 0.8° North, 35.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.0° North, 34.2° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*International age/stage:Langhian - Serravallian
Key time interval:Langhian - Serravallian
Age range of interval:15.97000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tiim Local bed:Muruyur
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 13-15 Ma; Min age = 12.4 +/- .5 Ma radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: tuffaceous, ETE lithology comments: lower=tff/conglome/cly;upper=tff/grits
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:22 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 944, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 1127, Baringo, Muruyur, Muruyur beds,
Database number:22303
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, M. Uhen
Modifier:V. Egerton
Created:1999-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2004-04-06 15:34:14
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5569.ETE 1307L. E. Frostick and I. Reid. 1986. Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern Kenya. Geological Society of America Special Publication 25:113-125 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

33250 M. Pickford. 1998. A new genus of Tayassuidae (Mammalia) from the middle Miocene of Uganda and Kenya. Annales de Paléontologie 84(3-4):275-285 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]