East Turkana - Area 102 - Lower Burgi: Gelasian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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Harris 1983 | 2 specimens | |||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Eisenmann 1983 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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Harris 1983 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Notochoerus euilus
(Hopwood 1926)
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Harris 1983 | 3 specimens | |||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffa jumae
Leakey 1967
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Cephalophus sp.
Smith 1827
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 3.9° North, 36.3° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.8° North, 36.0° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Pliocene |
| *International age/stage: | Gelasian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Gelasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Koobi Fora | Member: | Lower Burgi | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Burgi and Lokalalei Tuffs radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: fine-grained, ETE lithology comments: grades upward to olive-brown claystones in cycles | |||
| Environment: | fluvial-deltaic indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: upper part - restricted, closed lake | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 9 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 122, 121, 88, ; ETE museum list: MUSEUMS OF, NATIONAL | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 274, Area 102 - Lower Burgi, | ||
| Database number: | 21460 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1993-01-25 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-01-25 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4469. | ETE 104 | J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2:1-321 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 10216 | ETE | V. Eisenmann. 1983. Family Equidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:156-214 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
| 10217 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1983. Family Suidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:215-302 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
| 10214 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1983. Family Deinotheriidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:22-39 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
| 10318 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1991. Family Hippopotamidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments 3:31-85 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
| 10320 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1991. Family Giraffidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments 3:93-138 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
| 10321 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1991. Family Bovidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments 3:139-320 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |