Also known as Kay Behrensmeyer Site, KBS

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.0° N, 36.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: KBS Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian to Gelasian (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Minimum age= 1.64+/- 0.03 Ma (Base of Okote Tuff- K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating)

•Maximum age= 1.88 Ma (KBS Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating)

•Artifacts and fauna are stratified within the KBS tuff; stone tools of KBS industry. Australopithecus specimens from a higher level than the archaeological assemblage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-deltaic; poorly lithified, bioturbated, tuffaceous, volcaniclastic, gray siltstone and poorly lithified, volcaniclastic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical, sieve,

• Archaeological protocols of G. L. Isaac were followed in excavation and surface collection.

Primary reference: G. L. Isaac. 1997. Koobi Fora Research Project Volume 5 Plio-Pleistocene Archaeology. [A. Behrensmeyer/S. Cote/S. Cote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32051: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 03.06.2003, edited by Denne Reed

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