Also known as ETE Locality 300, Area 118 - Upper Burgi,
Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 36.2° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Burgi Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Lokalalei Tuff, Min = KBS Tuff radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; claystone
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; 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 21486: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 20.05.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
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Actinopteri | |
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816 carp-like fish | |
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816 | |
Gymnarchus niloticus aba knifefish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959 whiptail stingray |