East Turkana - Area 103 - General (Pliocene to of Kenya)

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

• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: .

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

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
Mammalia
 Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus djourabensis5 Lehmann et al. 2004 aardvark
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta cf. crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena
 Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat
cf. Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828 cat
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Metridiochoerus compactus3 Van Hoepen and Van Hoepen 1932 pig
Metridiochoerus andrewsi3 Hopwood 1926 pig
Metridiochoerus hopwoodi3 Leakey 1958 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes3 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alcelaphini indet.4 Brookes 1876 antelope
Medium-sized Alcelaphini dentitions
Tragelaphus strepsiceros4 Pallas 1766 greater kudu
 Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Thryonomys sp.1 Fitzinger 1867 cane rat
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
Cercopithecus sp. Linnaeus 1758 monkey
Colobus sp. Illiger 1811 monkey