East Turkana - Area 260 - Tulu Bor (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 253, Area 260 - Tulu Bor,

Where: Kenya (3.6° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 36.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Tulu Bor and Burgi Tuffs radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: floodplain lakes
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: sandstone, claystone

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 298, 297, 296, 295, ; 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 21440: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 31.12.1992

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Simatherium cf. kohllarseni