East Turkana - Area 121 - General (Pleistocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 313, Area 121 - General,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.2° 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: Max = KBS tuff, min = top of Chari member

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21499: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 03.06.1993

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile
Crocodylus niloticus Laurenti 1768 Nile crocodile
Euthecodon brumpti Joleaud 1920 crocodile
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta cf. crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena
 Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada
Osteichthyes
 Ceratodontiformes - Lepidosirenidae
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Centropomidae
Lates sp. Cuvier 1828 lates
 Siluriformes - Clariidae
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish
Cladistia
 Polypteriformes - Polypteridae
Polypterus sp. Lacépède 1803 bichir