East Turkana - Area 118 - Upper Burgi: Gelasian, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Sindacharax sp.
Mammalia - Bovidae
Reduncini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1907
Harris 1991 1 specimen
Reduncini gen. and sp. indet.
Kobus sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941
Harris 1991 2 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus scotti (Leakey 1943)
Harris 1983 2 specimens
original and current combination Gerontochoerus scotti
Kolpochoerus limnetes (Hopwood 1926)
Harris 1983 1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
Beden 1983 1 specimen
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
Actinopteri - Characiformes - Alestidae
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816
Actinopteri - Cypriniformes - Cyprinidae
Barbus sp. Cuvier and Cloquet 1816
2 specimens
Actinopteri - Osteoglossiformes - Gymnarchidae
Gymnarchus niloticus
2 specimens
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Dasyatidae
Dasyatis africana Dartevelle and Casier 1959
37 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya
Coordinates: 4.1° North, 36.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.0° North, 36.2° East
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Gelasian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval:Gelasian
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Koobi Fora Member:Upper Burgi
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Lokalalei Tuff, Min = KBS Tuff radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,red or brown claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: light-colored, ETE lithology comments: dark olive claystones, siltstones, fine-medium grained sandstones
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic in upper part of member
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:80 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 300, Area 118 - Upper Burgi,
Database number:21486
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1993-05-20 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-05-20 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]
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]
10321ETE J. M. Harris. 1991. Family Bovidae. Koobi Fora Research Project: The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls, and Palaeoenvironments 3:139-320 [A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton/V. Egerton]