East Turkana - Area 130 - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 315, Area 130 - Okote,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.3° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Okote Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Okote Tuff, min = Chari Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial; mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: complex of small fluvial channels
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: conglomerate, caliche, pumiceous sands

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 21501: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 10.06.1993

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Damaliscus sp.
Damaliscus sp. Sclater and Thomas 1894 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp.nov.-E.Turkana