Also known as LOK 12
Where: Kenya (2.2° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 31.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lokone Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• early late Oligocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, coarse-grained, quartzose sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Lokone Paleontological Research Project in November–December 2007
Primary reference: S. Ducrocq, J.-R. Boisserie, J.-J. Tiercelin, C. Delmer, G. Garcia, M. F. Kyalo, M. G. Leakey, L. Marivaux, O. Otero, S. Peigné, P. Tassy and F. Lihoreau. 2010. New Oligocene vertebrate localities from Northern Kenya (Turkana basin). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):293-299 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174673: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
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Mammalia | |
Mammalia indet. mammal | |
Phiomyidae indet. Wood 1955 rodent | |
aff. Masrasector sp. Simons and Gingerich 1974 creodont | |
Apterodon aff. gaudryi Fischer 1880 creodont | |
Saghatheriinae indet. Andrews 1906 hyrax | |
aff. Phiomia indet. Andrews and Beadnell 1902 proboscidean | |
Reptilia | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Osteichthyes | |
Actinopterygii indet. Cope 1887 |