South Turkwel Hominids: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis informal sp. A
Linnaeus 1758
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 2.3° North, 36.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.3° North, 36.1° East |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous lithified tuff |
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. |
| Geology comments: redescription of museum collection | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 197003 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | A. Munro |
| Modifier: | C. Peredo | ||
| Created: | 2018-10-17 23:03:22 | Last modified: | 2018-10-29 08:21:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-10-17 23:03:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67162. | L. Werdelin and M. E. Lewis. 2000. Carnivora from the South Turkwel Hominid Site, Northern Kenya. Journal of Paleontology 74(6):1173-1180 [M. Uhen/A. Munro] |