West Turkana - Nanyangakipi: Calabrian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus aethiopicus
Coryndon and Coppens 1975
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya | State/province: | Rift Valley | County: | West Turkana |
| Coordinates: | 4.4° North, 35.8° East (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.4° North, 35.7° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Pleistocene |
| *International age/stage: | Calabrian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Omo | Formation: | Nachukui | Member: | Natoo/Kaitio | Local bed: | below/above Okote Tuff |
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: between Malbe Tuff (1.86 +/- 0.02) and Lower Koobi Fora Tuff(=Okote Tuff; 1.64 +/- 0.03); Malbe Tuff also dated by Ar/Ar radiometric intage_min | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: sand, silt, and clay | |||
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: . | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 6, ; ETE museum list: KENYA N.M. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 103, NN, Nanyangakipi, | ||
| Database number: | 21306 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1991-06-03 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1991-06-03 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4454. | ETE 88 | J. M. Harris, F.H. Brown, and M.G. Leakey. 1988. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 399:1-128 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |