East Turkana - Area 6 - Chari: 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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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Hipparion cf. ethiopicum
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Eisenmann 1983 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Dasyatis africana
Dartevelle and Casier 1959
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| ETE occurrence; species: A-E.Turkana | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 4.3° North, 36.2° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 4.2° North, 36.1° East |
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Calabrian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| *Period: | Quaternary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Pleistocene - 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: Chari Tuff, top of Chari member radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone | ||
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: coarse, tabular, ETE lithology comments: conglomerate, upward-fining cycles | |||
| 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: repetitive lacustrine deposition | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 3 specimens |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 88, ; ETE museum list: MUSEUMS OF, NATIONAL | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 264, ARea 6 - Chari, | ||
| Database number: | 21450 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | ||
| Created: | 1993-01-08 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-04-05 05:12:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-01-08 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] |