Also known as ETE Locality 177, Area 103-General,
Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 35.9° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: composite age based on other members from which fossils have been recorded
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 122, 121, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
Primary reference: J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21369: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 12.02.1993, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Mammalia | |
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Crocuta cf. crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat
cf. Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat | |
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Metridiochoerus compactus3, Metridiochoerus andrewsi3, Metridiochoerus hopwoodi3, Kolpochoerus limnetes3
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Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
Cercopithecus sp. Linnaeus 1758 monkey
Colobus sp. Illiger 1811 monkey |