East Turkana - Kapthurin fm.: Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Oenomys sp.
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Tilapia sp.
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Gastropoda
- Thiaridae
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Melanoides indet.
Olivier 1804
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ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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ETE occurrence; species: Carnivora | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Thryonomyidae
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Thryonomys sp.
Fitzinger 1867
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Gliridae
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Graphiurus sp.
Smuts 1832
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Nesomyidae
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Dendromus sp.
Smith 1829
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Cricetomys sp.
Waterhouse 1840
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Otomys cf. angoniensis
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Steatomys sp.
Peters 1846
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Cercopithecidae indet.
Gray 1821
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ETE occurrence; species: Cecopithecinae | ||||||||||
Colobus sp.
Illiger 1811
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Theropithecus cf. oswaldi
(Andrews 1916)
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Papio sp.
Erxleben 1777
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo cf. erectus
(Dubois 1892)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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ETE occurrence; species: Soricidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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ETE occurrence; species: Suidae | ||||||||||
Mesochoerus majus
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Kolpochoerus majus
(Hopwood 1934)
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus
(Pallas 1766)
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Potamochoerus porcus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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18 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Gazella sp.
Blaineville 1816
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Ourebia sp.
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Antidorcas sp.
Sundevall 1847
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Oryx sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Damaliscus sp.
Sclater and Thomas 1894
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Alcelaphus sp.
Blainville 1816
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Alcelaphus cf. buselaphus
Pallas 1766
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Cephalophus sp.
Smith 1827
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Sylvicapra sp.
Ogilby 1837
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Kobus sp.
Smith 1840
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Kobus cf. ellipsiprymnus
(Ogilby 1833)
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original and current combination Antilope ellipsiprymnus | ||||||||||
Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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Tragelaphus sp.
de Blainville 1816
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Tragelaphus cf. scriptus
(Pallas 1766)
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cf. Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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original and current combination Bos caffer | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera leo
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Ichneumia sp.
Geoffroy 1837
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Heterohyrax sp.
(Gray 1868)
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Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus sp.
Geoffroy 1791
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= Orycteropus afer
Pallas 1766
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Pickford 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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ETE occurrence; species: Chelonia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus sp.
Merrem 1820
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Reptilia
- Struthioniformes
- Struthionidae
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Struthio sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Actinopteri
- Siluriformes
- Clariidae
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Clarias sp.
Scopoli 1777
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 0.5° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 0.5° North, 36.0° East |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Quaternary - Quaternary | *Epoch: | Pleistocene - Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
Key time interval: | Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.78100 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kapthurin | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age=.78 Ma;Min age=.25+/- .12 Ma (K/Ar dates from tuff K4) radiometric intage_min
Detailed tephrochronology reports can be found in Blegen et al. 2018 (A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa, Journal of Human Evolution) supporting Middle–Late Pleistocene age for the Kapthurin Fm. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | tuff |
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: coarsely-bed blder conglm>fn-gned volc tuffs | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0 |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 68 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 922, ; ETE museum list: KNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 1096, Baringo, Kapthurin, Kapthurin fm., | ||
Database number: | 22272 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, P. Holroyd |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-04 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-02-02 05:00:05 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-04 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5569. | ETE 1307 | L. E. Frostick and I. Reid. 1986. Evolution and sedimentary character of lake deltas fed by ephemeral rivers in the Turkana Basin, southern Kenya. Geological Society of America Special Publication 25:113-125 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |
Secondary references:
26068 | M. Pickford. 2005. Orycteropus (Tubulidentata, Mammalia) from Langebaanweg and Baard’s Quarry, Early Pliocene of South Africa. Comptes Rendus Palevol 4:715-726 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/J. Alroy] |