East Turkana - Area 250 - Moiti (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 248, ARea 250 - Moiti,

Where: Kenya (3.7° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 36.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Moiti Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Moiti and Lokochot Tuffs radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: silt pebbles, pumiceous tuffs

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 291, 290, ; 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 21435: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 31.12.1992

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphus kyaloae2, Tragelaphus nakuae2, Reduncini indet.2, Menelikia leakeyi2, Aepyceros shungurae2
Tragelaphus kyaloae2 Harris 1991 antelope
Tragelaphus nakuae2 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Reduncini indet.2 Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
Reduncini gen. and sp. indet.
Menelikia leakeyi2 Harris 1991 antelope
Aepyceros shungurae2 Gentry 1985 impala
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon protoamphibius1
1Harris 1991; 2Harris 1991