East Turkana - Area 2 - Okote: Calabrian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Sindacharax sp.
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Actinopteri
- Centropomidae
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Lates sp.
Cuvier 1828
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Characiformes
- Alestidae
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Hydrocynus sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Mochokidae
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Synodontis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Claroteidae
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Clarotes sp.
Kner 1855
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Clariidae
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Clarias sp.
Scopoli 1777
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Cypriniformes
- Cyprinidae
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Barbus sp.
Cuvier and Cloquet 1816
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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cf. Megantereon sp.
Croizet and Jobert 1828
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Connochaetes gentryi
Harris 1991
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Hominidae indet.
Gray 1825
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| ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 4.3° North, 36.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.3° North, 36.1° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *International age/stage: | Calabrian (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Calabrian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.80000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Koobi Fora | Member: | Okote | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: KBS and Chari Tuffs radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red or brown mudstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: red, ETE lithology comments: upward-fining cycles, analcimic, tuffaceous siltstone | |||
| Environment: | wet floodplain | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shallow floodplain lake | |||
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 11 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 298, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 256, Area 2 - Okote, | ||
| Database number: | 21443 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1993-01-04 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-01-04 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4488. | ETE 123 | I. McDougall. 1985. K/Ar and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of the Hominid-Bearing Plio-Pleistocene Sequence at Koobi Fora, Lake Turkana, Northern Kenya. Geological Society of America Bulletin 96:159-175 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |