East Turkana - Area 204 - Lokochot/Tulu Bor: Piacenzian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Nyanzachoerus kanamensis
Leakey 1958
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Harris 1983 | 1 specimen | |||||
Notochoerus euilus
(Hopwood 1926)
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Harris 1983 | 8 specimens | |||||
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion hasumense
Eisenmann 1983
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Eisenmann 1983 | 1 specimen | |||||
recombined as Eurygnathohippus hasumense | |||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta exoptata
Dietrich 1941
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Beden 1983 | 5 specimens | |||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium bozasi
Arambourg 1934
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Harris 1983 | 2 specimens | |||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 3.8° North, 36.4° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 3.6° North, 36.0° East |
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
*International age/stage: | Piacenzian (minimum) | ||
Key time interval: | Piacenzian | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Koobi Fora | Member: | Lokochot/Tulu Bor | ||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Toroto and Hasuma Tuffs (time interval does not quite extend to top of Tulu Bor Member) radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: . | Tectonic setting: | rift |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 12 specimens |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 238, 237, 236, 235, 234, 233, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 237, Area 204 - Tulu Bor, | ||
Database number: | 21424 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, V. Egerton |
Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
Created: | 1992-12-29 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1992-12-29 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:
10215 | ETE | M. Beden. 1983. Family Elephantidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:40-129 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
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] |
10217 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1983. Family Suidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:215-302 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
10214 | ETE | J. M. Harris. 1983. Family Deinotheriidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Suidae 2:22-39 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton] |
4730 | ETE 409 | J. M. Harris. 1991. Koobi Fora Research Project, Vol III, The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls and Paleoenvironments. Oxford University Press, New York [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |