Also known as ETE Locality 349, Area 8B - General,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = KBS Tuff (1.88+-.02ma), Min = Chari Tuff (1.39+-.02ma)

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•see McDougall abd Brown 2006 for detailed breakdown of 40Ar/39Ar dated tuff layers in Koobi Fora Formation.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tuff

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 400, 392, 391, 390, 389, 388, 387, 386, 385, 384, 383, 382, 381, 380, 379, 377, 374, 336, 333, ; 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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21534: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.05.1994

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