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
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
Globothalamea | |
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Tubothalamea | |
Nodosariata | |
Streblus sp. Fischer 1817 | |
Foraminifera | |
Elphidium sp. Monfort 1808 |