Kipevu Beds, Changamwe, Kenya - Schluter (1997) (Miocene of Kenya)

Where: Coast, Kenya (4.2° S, 39.6° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 38.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kipevu Formation, Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Middle Miocene. The term "Kipevu Beds" was proposed from the flat-bedded, yellowish sands and clays described from the above location.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; yellow sandstone and claystone

• Contains shallow marine assemblage.
• Flat-bedded, yellowish sands and clays.

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Taxa mentioned informally in text from stratigraphic unit. Further data provided in Caswell and Baker (1953) and Walters and Lindon (1972).

Primary reference: T. Schluter. 1997. Geology of East Africa 1-484 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 42456: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.07.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Definitely not exhaustive. Includes forams.
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
Streblus sp. Fischer 1817
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonion sp. Monfort 1808
sensu lato
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Austrotrillinidae