East Turkana - Area 115 - Upper Burgi: Gelasian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus koobiforensis
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Eisenmann 1983 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Notochoerus scotti
(Leakey 1943)
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Harris 1983 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Metridiochoerus andrewsi
Hopwood 1926
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Harris 1983 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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Harris 1983 | 7 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Alcelaphini indet.
Brookes 1876
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Harris 1991 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
| Small Alcelaphini dentitions | ||||||||||
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Megalotragus isaaci
Harris 1991
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Hippotragus gigas
Leakey 1965
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Kobus sigmoidalis
Arambourg 1941
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Harris 1991 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
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Gazella praethomsoni
Arambourg 1947
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Tragelaphus strepsiceros
(Pallas 1766)
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Harris 1991 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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aff. Tragelaphus strepsiceros
(Pallas 1766)
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Harris 1991 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
| "Tragelaphus aff. T. strepsiceros maryanus" | ||||||||||
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Tragelaphus nakuae
Arambourg 1941
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Harris 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Sivatheridae
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Sivatherium maurusium
(Pomel 1893)
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Harris 1991 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Australopithecus cf. boisei
Leakey 1959
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Isaac 1997 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Homo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Isaac 1997 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecoides williamsi
Mollet 1947
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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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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Cladistia
- Polypteriformes
- Polypteridae
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Polypterus sp.
Lacépède 1803
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Schwartz 1983 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Tetraodontiformes
- Tetraodontidae
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Tetrodon sp.
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Schwartz 1983 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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unclassified
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Sindacharax sp.
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Schwartz 1983 | |||||||||
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Labeo sp.
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Characiformes
- Alestidae
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Hydrocynus sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Schwartz 1983 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Mochokidae
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Synodontis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Schwartz 1983 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Osteoglossiformes
- Gymnarchidae
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Gymnarchus sp.
Cuvier 1829
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Dasyatis africana
Dartevelle and Casier 1959
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| ETE occurrence; species: A-E.Turkana | ||||||||||
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Dasyatis africana
Dartevelle and Casier 1959
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: B-E.Turkana | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 4.1° North, 36.4° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.7° North, 36.2° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Gelasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | 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: | Upper Burgi | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Lokalalei and KBS Tuffs radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | planar lamination claystone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: limonite clast conglomerates | |||
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic in upper part of member | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 551 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 223, 222, 221, 220, 219, 218, 217, 216, 184, 183, 158, 135, 133, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 233, Area 115 - Upper Burgi, | ||
| Database number: | 21420 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, V. Egerton |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1992-12-29 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1992-12-29 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4447. | ETE 81 | M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |
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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 8610 | ETE | G. L. Isaac. 1997. Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 5 Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote] |
| 4760 | ETE 445 | H. L. Schwartz. 1983. Paleoecology of Late Cenozoic Fishes from the Turkana Basin, Northern Kenya. [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen] |