Kipsaramon - K089: Langhian - Serravallian, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Protragoceros sp.
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cf. Paleomerycidae indet.
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ETE occurrence; species: cf. Paleomerycidae | ||||||||||
Choerlophodon sp.
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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ETE occurrence; species: Plantae | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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ETE occurrence; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Diamantomys luederitzi
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Anomaluridae
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Anomaluridae indet.
Gill 1872
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ETE occurrence; species: Anomaluridae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Pedetidae
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Pedetidae indet.
Gray 1825
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ETE occurrence; species: Pedetidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
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Primates indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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ETE occurrence; species: Primates | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Victoriapithecidae
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Victoriapithecus sp.
von Koenigswald 1969
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Proconsulidae
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cf. Proconsul major
Le Gros Clark and Leakey 1950
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
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Kalepithecus sp.
Harrison 1989
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Paradiceros sp.
Hooijer 1968
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Aceratherium sp.
Kaup 1834
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Mammalia
- Artiodactyla
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Artiodactyla indet.
Owen 1848
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ETE occurrence; species: Artiodactyla | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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cf. Listriodon sp.
von Meyer 1846
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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cf. Hippopotamidae indet.
Gray 1821
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ETE occurrence; species: cf. Hippopotamidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tragulidae
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Dorcatherium sp.
Kaup 1839
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffidae indet.
Gray 1821
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ETE occurrence; species: Giraffidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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ETE occurrence; species: Proboscidea | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Deinotheriidae
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Deinotherium sp.
(Kaup 1825)
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original and current combination Dinotherium | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Protanancus sp.
Arambourg 1945
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Chelonia indet.
(Latreille 1800)
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synonym of Testudines | ||||||||||
ETE occurrence; species: Chelonia | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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ETE occurrence; species: Crocodylia | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Kenya |
Coordinates: | 0.8° North, 35.8° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 0.0° North, 34.2° East |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*International age/stage: | Langhian - Langhian | ||
Key time interval: | Langhian - Serravallian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 11.62000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: bonebed w/fn sand&cly | |
Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: fluvial influx>lacustr env |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ) |
Collection size: | 26 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 939, 930, 926, ; ETE museum list: KNM |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 1097, Kipsaramon, Poi, Baringo, K089, Kipsaramon - K089, | ||
Database number: | 22273 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1999-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-02-11 06:32:08 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-08-05 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5452. | ETE 1188 | A. J. Winkler. 1992. Systematics and biogeography of middle Miocene rodents from the Muruyur Beds, Baringo District, Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):236-249 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/J. Alroy] |