East Turkana - Area 133- Okote- FxJj 23 (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

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

•Minimum age= 1.4 Ma (Chari Tuff, K/Ar and Ar/Ar dating).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, pebbly, silty, sandy mudstone

• Channel. Fauna indicates mix of aquatic, woodland, bush, and savanna habitats.
• Sand and gravel body that is stratified within mudstones consisting of brownish, sandy silts and silty sands. Sands are coarse with interstratified fine gravels. These coarser sediments are capped by more coherent, finer, silty sands.

Size class: macrofossils

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

• 24 bones and 7 teeth.

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 32114: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Suzanne Cote on 05.06.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Taken from Isaac (1997) pages 171-172.
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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
24 bone, 7 tooth