East Turkana - Muruyur beds: Langhian - Serravallian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Tilapia sp.
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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ETE occurrence; species: Plantae | ||||||||||
Angiospermae
- Asparagales
- Agavaceae
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Dracaena sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
- Bithyniidae
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Gabbiella indet.
Prudhoe 1989
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ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name | ||||||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Raninidae
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Carinatus carinatus
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Diamantomys luederitzi
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originally entered as "Diamantomys leuderitzi" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
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Hominoidea indet.
Gray 1825
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ETE occurrence; species: Hominoidea | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Aceratherium acutirostratum
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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ETE occurrence; species: Tayassuidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Listriodon sp.
von Meyer 1846
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Morotochoerus ugandensis
Pickford 1998
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Pickford 1998 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
Protragocerus sp.
Deperet 1887
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Palaeotragus sp.
Gaudry 1861
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyonidae indet.
Haeckel 1886
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ETE occurrence; species: Amphicyonid lg | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus sp.
Geoffroy 1791
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Prodeinotherium hobleyi
(Andrews 1911)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Zygolophodon sp.
(Vacek 1877)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Choerolophodontidae
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Choerolophodon kisumuensis
Picford 2001
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recombined as Afrochoerodon kisumuensis | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Pelomedusidae
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Pelusios sp.
Wagler 1830
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Clariidae
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Clarias sp.
Scopoli 1777
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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 1307 | L. 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] |