Chamtwara: Early/Lower Miocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Kulutherium kenyensis
Pickford 2007
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Hecubides euryodon
Savage 1965
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Morales et al. 2016 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Viverridae
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Africanictis schmidtkittleri
Morales et al. 1998
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Morales et al. 1998 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| Viverridae nov. sp. of Schmidt-Kittler (1987). KNM CA 303, P4, holotype; M1 with catalog number not given by Morales et al. 1998 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 0.2° South, 35.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.5° South, 32.9° East |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chamtwara | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: age noted as 19-20 Ma |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: red paleosols developed on top of a karstified carbonitite tuff | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 77025 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd, J. Zijlstra | Enterer: | P. Holroyd, J. Zijlstra | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-12-16 17:34:07 | Last modified: | 2007-12-16 19:34:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-12-16 17:34:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26067. | M. Pickford. 2007. A new suiform (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Early Miocene of East Africa. Comptes Rendu Palevol 6(3):221-229 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
Secondary references:
| 57771 | J. Morales, M. Pickford, D. Soria and S. Fraile. 1998. New carnivores from the basal Middle Miocene of Arrisdrift, Namibia. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 91:27-40 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra] | |
| 67427 | J. Morales, M. Pickford, and A. Valenciano. 2016. Systematics of African Amphicyonidae, with descriptions of new material from Napak (Uganda) and Grillental (Namibia). Journal of Iberian Geology 42(2):131-150 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |