East Turkana - Area 204 - Lokochot/Tulu Bor: Piacenzian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958
Harris 1983 1 specimen
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
Harris 1983 8 specimens
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion hasumense Eisenmann 1983
Eisenmann 1983 1 specimen
recombined as Eurygnathohippus hasumense
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta exoptata Dietrich 1941
Beden 1983 5 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bozasi Arambourg 1934
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 104J. 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:

10215ETE 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]
10216ETE 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]
10217ETE 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]
10214ETE 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]
4730ETE 409J. 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]