West Turkana - Kokiselei II: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Megalotragus sp. van Hoepen 1932
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya County:West Turkana
Coordinates: 4.1° North, 35.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.8° North, 35.5° East
Time
Period: Neogene - Quaternary Epoch: Pliocene - Pleistocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary - Quaternary *Epoch:Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene
Key time interval: Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 0.774 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Nachukui Member:Kaitio
Local bed:below Okote Tuff
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: between Malbe Tuff (1.86 +/- 0.02) & Lower Koobi Fora Tuff (=Okote Tuff; 1.64 +/- 0.03); Malbe Tuff also dated by Ar/Ar
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: silt, clay, and fine sand; see Kaitio Fauna
Environment:fluvial-lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:0 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 6, ; ETE museum list: KENYA N.M.
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 87, KS2, Kokiselei II,
Database number:21290
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1991-05-31 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1991-05-31 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4454.ETE 88J. M. Harris, F.H. Brown, and M.G. Leakey. 1988. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 399:1-128 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]