Lothidok Hill: Late/Upper Oligocene, Kenya
collected by Kenya National Museums (led by R. Leakey) 1986

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Pliohyracidae
Meroehyrax kyongoi Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18249
Thyrohyrax kenyaensis Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18177,18221 and 18250
Brachyhyrax oligocenus Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18175, 18176 and 18222
Mammalia - Hyracoidea - Titanohyracidae
Afrohyrax informal n. sp.
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18223
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium sp. Ehik 1930
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 2, 3, 5, 6, 18240, 18242 and 18236
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Losodokodon losodokius n. gen., n. sp. Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18244 - holotype; referred specimens: KNM-LS 18212, 18214,18234 and 18243
Mammalia - Embrithopoda - Arsinoitheriidae
Arsinoitherium sp. Beadnell 1902
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18
Mammalia - Creodonta
Hyainailouros sp. Stehlin 1907
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18215 and 18230
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae
Brachyodus sp. Depéret 1895
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS 18225, 18227, 18233, 18237 and 18238
Mammalia - Rodentia
Diamantomys timius n. sp. Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
Rasmussen and Gutierrez 2009
KNM-LS - type (left dentary)
Mammalia - Primates
Proconsul hamiltoni n. sp. Madden 1980
recombined as Kamoyapithecus hamiltoni
KNM-LS 7 - type (right maxillary fragment); referred specimens: KNM-LS 8, 18351, 18352, 18359 (mandibular and maxillary fragments and teeth)
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya State/province:Turkana
Coordinates: 3.4° North, 35.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.9° North, 32.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oligocene
Age range of interval:28.40000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:27.5 ± 0.3 to 24.2 ± 0.3 Ma (K-Ar)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Erageleit
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Erageleit beds; ages based on basalt beds above and below the fossiliferous bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Kenya National Museums (led by R. Leakey) Collection dates:February 1986
Metadata
Also known as:Losodok Hill
Database number:174662
Authorizer:P. Mannion Enterer:P. Mannion
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2015-11-23 04:36:04 Last modified:2015-11-23 04:36:04
Access level:the public Released:2015-11-23 04:36:04
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

5444.ETE 1177M. G. Leakey, P. S. Ungar, and A. Walker. 1995. A new genus of large primate from the late Oligocene of Lothidok, Turkana District, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 28(6):519-531 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

57046 D. T. Rasmussen and M. Gutierrez. 2009. A Mammalian Fauna from the Late Oligocene of Northwestern Kenya. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 288(1-3):1-52 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]