Koru Fauna locality 21: Burdigalian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Homorus sp.
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106 specimens | |||||||||
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Burtoa sp.
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62 specimens | |||||||||
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Trochonanina sp.
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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Edouardia sp.
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Tayloria sp.
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168 specimens | |||||||||
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Gonaxis sp.
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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Edentulina sp.
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gulella sp.
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153 specimens | |||||||||
| including Ptychotrema | ||||||||||
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Krapfiella sp.
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90 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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24 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Anomaluridae
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Paranomalurus sp.
Lavocat 1973
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Pedetidae
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Megapedetes sp.
MacInnes 1957
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Afrocricetodon songhori
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Diamantomys luederitzi
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Amphechinus sp.
Aymard 1850
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Ophidia
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Ophidia indet.
Latreille 1804
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Achatinidae
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Limicolaria sp.
Schumacher 1817
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48 specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 0.2° South, 35.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.3° South, 33.1° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
| Altitude: | 1540 meters |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Miocene - Middle Miocene |
| *International age/stage: | Middle Burdigalian | ||
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Legetet |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: Carbonatite units separated by weathered profiles and residual soils. Fossils occur only in the residual soils. | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 27857 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Wertheim |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-01-14 16:54:25 | Last modified: | 2006-07-25 23:21:32 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-01-14 16:54:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7625. | M. Pickford and P. Andrews. 1981. The Tinderet Miocene sequence in Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 10:11-33 [J. Alroy/J. Wertheim/J. Wertheim] |