Also known as ETE Locality 270, ARea 8 - General,
Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: indet. Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: KBS Tuff and top of Chari member, age based on other members from which fauna has been collected
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA
Primary reference: C. S. Feibel, F.H. Brown, and I. McDougall. 1989. Stratigraphic Context of Fossil hominids from the Omo Group Deposits: Northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:595-622 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 21456: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 11.01.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
Mammalia | |
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Pseudocivetta sp. Petter 1963 civet
Genetta cf. genetta Linnaeus 1758 common genet | |
Crocuta cf. crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
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Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
Cercocebus sp. Geoffroy 1812 monkey
Colobus sp. Illiger 1811 monkey | |
Reptilia | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile | |
Actinopteri | |
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish | |
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates | |
Cladistia | |
Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir |