East Turkana - Area 127 - Upper Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 225, Area 127 - Upper Burgi,

Where: Kenya (4.0° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.9° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Burgi Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: KBS and Lokalalei tuffs radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; claystone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic in upper part of member
• ETE rock type adj: light-colored, ETE lithology comments: dark olive claystones, siltstones, fine-grained sandstone, conglomerate

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 134, ; 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

PaleoDB collection 21412: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.12.1992

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Actinopteri
 Characiformes - Alestidae
Hydrocynus sp.
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816