Also known as ETE Locality 260, Area 3 - General,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: KBS Tuff and top of Chari member, ages based on other members with faunal material at this locality

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•see McDougall abd Brown 2006 for detailed breakdown of 40Ar/39Ar dated tuff layers in Koobi Fora Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, 122, 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 21446: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 25.04.1994

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