East Turkana - Area 118 - Upper Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

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

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic in upper part of member
• ETE rock type adj: light-colored, ETE lithology comments: dark olive claystones, siltstones, fine-medium grained sandstones

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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus limnetes2, "Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti2
Kolpochoerus limnetes2 Hopwood 1926 pig
"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti2 Leakey 1943 pig
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Reduncini indet.3 Knottnerus-Meyer 1907 antelope
Reduncini gen. and sp. indet.
Kobus sigmoidalis3 Arambourg 1941 antelope
Actinopteri
 Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816 carp-like fish
 Characiformes - Alestidae
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816
 Osteoglossiformes - Gymnarchidae
Gymnarchus niloticus aba knifefish
Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959 whiptail stingray