East Turkana - Area 117 - Tulu Bor/Lower Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 302, Area 117-Tulu Bor/Lower Burgi,

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Tulu Bor/Lower Burgi Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Mas = Tulu Bor Tuff, Min = Lokalalei Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: predominantly fluvial
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: fines up to claystone, cyclic sedimentation, L.Burgi-brief lacustrine episode, molluscan packstones

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 21488: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 20.05.1993

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Hipparion hasumense" = Eurygnathohippus hasumense2
"Hipparion hasumense" = Eurygnathohippus hasumense2 Eisenmann 1983 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti4, Nyanzachoerus kanamensis4, "Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus4, Kolpochoerus limnetes4
"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti4 Leakey 1943 pig
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis4 Leakey 1958 pig
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus4 Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog
Kolpochoerus limnetes4 Hopwood 1926 pig
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bozasi3 Arambourg 1934 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki1 Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis