West Turkana - Loruth Kaado V: Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene, Kenya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Bovidae
cf. Megalotragus sp. van Hoepen 1932
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Kenya State/province:Rift Valley County:West Turkana
Coordinates: 4.5° North, 35.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.4° North, 35.7° East
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary - Quaternary *Epoch:Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Nachukui Member:Indeterminate
Local bed:Indeterminate
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: .
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: not investigated
Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:1 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 17, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 158, LK5, Loruth Kaado V,
Database number:21359
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1991-06-19 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1991-06-19 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4454.ETE 88J. M. Harris, F.H. Brown, and M.G. Leakey. 1988. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of pliocene and Pleistocene Localities West of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 399:1-128 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]