Also known as ETE Locality 1125, Baringo, Kapthurin, K3',
Where: Kenya (0.5° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 36.0° E)
When: Middle Silts and Gravels Member (Kapthurin Formation), Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = .78 Ma;Min age = .25 +/- .12 Ma radiometric intage_min
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•Detailed tephrochronology reports can be found in Blegen et al. 2018 (A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa, Journal of Human Evolution) supporting Middle–Late Pleistocene age for the Kapthurin Fm.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 949, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Primary reference: M. Pickford. 1988. Geology and fauna of the middle Miocene hominoid site at Muruyur,Baringo District,Kenya. Human Evolution 3(5):381-390 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22301: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 05.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gnathostomata | |
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Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile | |
Mammalia | |
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hippo |