East Turkana - Area 131 - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 321, Area 131 - Okote,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.3° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Okote Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Okote Tuff, Min = Chari Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: small fluvial channel complex, pollen=fluvial
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: mudstones, caliche, basal cobble conglomerate

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: 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]more details

PaleoDB collection 21507: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.09.1993, edited by John Damuth and Victoria Egerton

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Sindacharax sp., "Hystricid" sp.2
Actinopteri
 Tetraodontiformes - Tetraodontidae
"Tetrodon sp." = Tetraodon
"Tetrodon sp." = Tetraodon Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet.2
Chiroptera indet.2 Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet., "Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae
"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine
 Rodentia - Dipodidae
Jaculus orientalis2
 Rodentia - Muridae
Aethomys sp.2, Arvicanthis sp.1, Tatera sp.1
Aethomys sp.2 Thomas 1915 rock rat
Arvicanthis sp.1 Lesson 1842 grass rat
Tatera sp.1 Lataste 1882 large naked-soled gerbil
 Rodentia - Ctenodactylidae
Pectinator sp.1
Pectinator sp.1 Blyth 1856 gundi
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix sp.1
Hystrix sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 porcupine
 Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Thryonomys sp.1
Thryonomys sp.1 Fitzinger 1867 cane rat
1Black 1984; 2Black and Krishtalka 1986