Kaloma: Langhian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates
Ramapithecus wickeri
1 specimen
    = Equatorius africanus Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1951
Ward et al. 1999
Mammalia - Creodonta
Creodonta indet. (Cope 1875)
1 specimen
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Creodonta
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Rhinocerotidae
Chilotheridium pattersoni Hooijer 1971
1 specimen
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium cf. pigotti Whitworth 1958
1 specimen
Dorcatherium cf. chappuisi Arambourg 1933
1 specimen
Mammalia - Suidae
Listriodon akatikubas Wilkinson 1976
1 specimen
Libycochoerus khinzikebirus Wilkinson 1976
1 specimen
recombined as Megalochoerus khinzikebirus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Prodeinotherium hobleyi (Andrews 1911)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Choerolophodontidae
Choerolophodon kisumensis
Reptilia - Testudines - Pelomedusidae
cf. Pelusios sp. Wagler 1830
4 specimens
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
1 specimen
Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya State/province:Nyanza
Coordinates: 0.1° South, 34.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.0° South, 32.9° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene
*International age/stage:Serravallian (minimum)
Key time interval:Langhian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Maboko
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: equivalent in age to Maboko sites (14-16 Ma); overlying Kisumu Phonolite dated by K/Ar at 12.3 +/- 0.02 My radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: .
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: overbank ETE event: ., ETE env comment: drier conditions of depo-sition than at Maboko
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:17 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 6, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 137, Kaloma, Kaloma Hill,
Database number:21338
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Alroy
Modifier:G. Varnham
Created:1991-06-10 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-02-04 04:26:12
Access level:the public Released:1991-06-10 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4653.ETE 295P. Andrews, G. E. Meyer, D. R. Pilbeam, J. A. Van Couvering, and J. A. H. Van Couvering. 1981. The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy, and palaeontology. Journal of Human Evolution 10:35-48 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

36156 S. Ward, B. Brown, A. Hill, J. Kelley, and W. Downs. 1999. Equatorius: a new hominoid genus from the Middle Miocene of Kenya. Science 285:1382-1386 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]