Olorgesailie - FB (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 658, Friday Beds, Olorgesailie - FB,

Where: Kenya (1.6° S, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 1.6° S, 36.4° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 1 Member (Olorgesailie Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 0 radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: dry floodplain

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: dry_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: well-drained flats where seds. were weath. +redepo
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: In soil horiz. that uncomformably overlies strat. diatomites

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: KNM

Primary reference: C. P. Koch. 1986. The Vertebrate Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Olorgesailie Formation (Middle Pleistocene, Kenya). [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 21840: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.03.1996

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse