Fort Ternan: Serravallian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Caprotragoides potwaricus
8 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: =to Pseudotragus
Afrocricetodontidae indet.
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: afrocricetodontid
Propaleoryx sp.
1 individual
Climacoceras africanus MacInnes 1936
9 individuals
    = Climaoceras gentryi
Hamilton 1978
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Chiroptera
Mammalia - Tubulidentata - Orycteropodidae
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791
2 individuals
Myorycteropus sp. MacInnes 1955
1 individual
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Myohyracidae
Myohyrax sp. Andrews 1914
1 individual
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Rhynchocyonidae
cf. Rhynchocyon sp. Peters 1847
1 individual
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Macroscelididae
Macroscelididae indet. Bonaparte 1838
4 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Macroscelididae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
ETE occurrence; species: Gomphotheriidae
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium sp. Kaup 1829
1 individual
corrected as Dinotherium
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Amphechinus sp. Aymard 1850
3 individuals
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyonidae informal indet.-large Haeckel 1886
3 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: amphicyonid-large
Amphicyonidae informal indet.-small Haeckel 1886
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: amphicyonid-small
Mammalia - Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Percrocuta sp. Kretzoi 1938
3 individuals
Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae
Genetta sp. Cuvier 1816
5 individuals
Mammalia - Creodonta
Dissopsalis sp. Pilgrim 1910
5 individuals
Megistotherium osteothlastes Savage 1973
2 individuals
originally entered as "Megistotherium osteothalastes"
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Kenyapotamus ternani n. gen., n. sp. Pickford 1983
Pickford 1983 2 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Bunolistriodon kidogosana
1 individual
Listriodon sp. von Meyer 1846
2 individuals
Mammalia - Giraffidae
Palaeotragus primaevus Churcher 1970
13 individuals
recombined as Giraffokeryx primaevus
Samotherium africanum
3 individuals
Mammalia
Walangania africanus Whitworth 1958
2 individuals
Mammalia - Bovidae
Kipsigicerus labidotus (Gentry 1970)
69 individuals
original and current combination Protragocerus labidotus
Gazella sp. Blaineville 1816
11 individuals
Eotragus sp. Pilgrim 1939
1 individual
Oioceros tanyceras
94 individuals
Mammalia - Tragulidae
Dorcatherium parvum Whitworth 1958
1 individual
recombined as Afrotragulus parvus
Dorcatherium chappuisi Arambourg 1933
4 individuals
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Paradiceros mukirii Hooijer 1968
10 individuals
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Leakeymys ternani
12 individuals
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Myocricetodontinae informal indet.-sm. Lavocat 1961
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: myocricetodontid-sm.
Myocricetodontinae informal indet.-lg. Lavocat 1961
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: myocricetodontid-lg.
Mammalia - Rodentia - Anomaluridae
Anomaluridae indet. Gill 1872
3 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Anomaluridae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Pedetidae
Megapedetes sp. MacInnes 1957
1 individual
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Sciuridae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Bathyergidae
Bathyergidae indet. Waterhouse 1841
3 individuals
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Bathygeridae
Mammalia - Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Paraphiomys pigotti Andrews 1914
5 individuals
Mammalia - Rodentia
Diamantomys sp. Stromer 1922
5 individuals
Mammalia - Primates - Lorisidae
Lorisidae indet. (Gray 1821)
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Lorisini
Mammalia - Primates - Proconsulidae
Proconsul cf. africanus Hopwood 1933
1 individual
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Limnopithecus legetet Hopwood 1933
5 individuals
Ramapithecus wickeri
5 individuals
synonym of Sivapithecus
Mammalia - Primates
Proconsul cf. nyanzae Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1950
1 individual
recombined as Ekembo nyanzae
Reptilia - Chamaeleonidae
Chameleontidae indet. Gray 1825
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Chameleontidae
Reptilia - Accipitriformes - Accipitridae
Accipitridae indet. Viellot 1816
1 individual
ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Accipitridae
Reptilia - Struthioniformes - Struthionidae
Struthio sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
1 individual
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya State/province:Central Nyanza
Coordinates: 0.2° South, 35.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.0° South, 33.9° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene
*International age/stage:Serravallian (minimum)
Key time interval:Serravallian
Age range of interval:13.82000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Kericho Phonolites Formation:Upper Koru Series Member:Fort Ternan "B" Beds
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: MinBFA - 13.9 +/- 0.03 - stepwised degassing isochron methodMaxBFA - 14.0 +/- 0.02 - total fusion method;both on biotite radiometric intage_min
bed: Soil #1/ Soil #2
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: siltstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: tuffaceous, ETE lithology comments: .
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: volcanic, ETE sed env 2: paleosol ETE event: ., ETE env comment: small-scale channel cuts through paleosols
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Collection size:0 specimens
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 6, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 139, Fort Ternan,
Database number:21340
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, M. Uhen
Modifier:J. Alroy
Created:1991-06-11 00:00:00 Last modified:2006-08-16 18:39:58
Access level:the public Released:1991-06-11 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4655.ETE 297W. W. Bishop, J. A. Miller, and F.J. Fitch. 1969. New Potassium-Argon Age Determinations Relevant to the Miocene Fossil Mammal Sequence in East Africa. American Journal of Science 267:669-699 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]

Secondary references:

36238 W. R. Hamilton. 1978. Fossil giraffes from the Miocene of Africa and a revision of the phylogeny of the Giraffoidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B 283(996):165-229 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
17166 M. Pickford. 1983. On the origins of Hippopotamidae together with descriptions of two new species, a new genus and a new subfamily from the Miocene of Kenya. Géobios 16(2):193-217 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]