East Turkana - Area 202 - Tulu Bor / Lower Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 354, Area 202 - Zone C,

Where: Kenya (3.8° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 3.7° 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: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Hasuma Tuff (2.85+-.08ma), Min = Lokalalei Tuff (2.52+-.05ma) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology:

• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: 0

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 123, ; 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 21539: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 17.05.1994

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bozasi1 Arambourg 1934 deinothere
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus2, Kolpochoerus limnetes2
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus2 Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog
Kolpochoerus limnetes2 Hopwood 1926 pig