East Turkana - Area 105 - Chari: Calabrian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus koobiforensis
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Eisenmann 1983 | 1 specimen | |||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 4.1° North, 36.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 4.0° North, 36.3° East |
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
*Period: | Tertiary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower - Middle Pliocene - Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Koobi Fora | Member: | Chari | ||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: ages based on Chari tuff and base of Galana Boi Beds radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone | ||
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: coarse, ETE lithology comments: upward-coarsening, conglomeratic | |||
Environment: | wet floodplain | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: meandering river |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 1 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, 121, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 210, Area 105 - Chari, | ||
Database number: | 21397 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | ||
Created: | 1993-02-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-04-05 04:51:49 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-12 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
4469. | ETE 104 | J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton] |
Secondary references:
10216 | ETE | V. Eisenmann. 1983. Family Equidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:156-214 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |