East Turkana - Area 116 - Tulu Bor (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 293, Area 116 - Tulu Bor,

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.4° 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: Max = Tulu Bor tuff, Min = Burgi Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: Lokeridede Lake - top of member
• ETE rock type adj: med-coarse, ETE lithology comments: yellow-brown silts, brown claystones, fining upward sequences, pedogenesis

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 17, ; ETE museum list: KNM

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 21479: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.05.1993

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelus sp.1
Camelus sp.1 Linnaeus 1758 camel
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Simatherium cf. kohllarseni2, Megalotragus sp.2
Megalotragus sp.2 van Hoepen 1932 antelope
Actinopteri
 Cichliformes - Cichlidae
Cichlidae indet.
Cichlidae indet. Heckel 1840 cichlid
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cichlidae
1Harris 1991; 2Harris 1991