Also known as West Turkana, KNM-WK

Where: Kenya (3.3° N, 35.8° E: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 33.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Kalodirr Member (Lothidok Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• the site of Kalodirr ("Oryx" in the Turkana language) is located at the headwater of the Kalodirr River (3?20'N, 35?45'E) between the Lokipenata Ridge and the Basalt Hills to the east (Boschetto et al. 1992; Leakey and Leakey 1986a, b).

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•Grossman et al. 2009: The age of the Kalodirr fauna can be well constrained based on K/Ar dating of the underlying Kalodirr tuffs (17.5+/-10.2 Ma) and the overlying Naserte tuffs (16.8+/-0.2 Ma), which divide the Kalodirr Member from the younger Naserte Member of the Lothidok Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Leakey and M. G. Leakey. 1986. A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya. Nature 324(13):143-146 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38060: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Victoria Egerton on 05.04.2004, edited by Patricia Holroyd, John Alroy and Philip Mannion

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