Also known as Loncherangan
Where: Kenya (3.8° N, 35.7° E: paleocoordinates 2.6° N, 33.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• from a "13.5 m" unit at the top of the local sequence
•there is an average K-Ar date of 17.5 +/- 0.3 Ma for five determinations on "two feldspar separates" coming from the "upper tuff" in the sequence, which is "slightly" below the fossiliferous unit
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified claystone and lithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by W. Anyonge, F. Brown in 1986, 1987
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
• "All the fossils were recovered from either the surface or from sieving" and "A small test excavation... failed to find additional specimens in situ"
•material is reposited in the KNM (National Museums of Kenya) collection
Primary reference: W. Anyonge. 1991. Fauna from a new Lower Miocene locality west of Lake Turkana, Kenya. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(3):378-390 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83629: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.08.2008, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Simiolus enjiessi Leakey and Leakey 1987 monkey | |
Afropithecus turkanensis Leakey and Leakey 1986 ape | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Nguruwe cf. kijivium Pickford 1986 pig
Kenyasus rusingensis Pickford 1986 pig | |
Hyoboops cf. moneyi, "Masritherium aequatoralis" = Masritherium aequatorialis
Hyoboops cf. moneyi Fourtau 1918 anthracothere
"Masritherium aequatoralis" = Masritherium aequatorialis MacInnes 1951 anthracothere | |
Diamantohyus africanus Stromer 1926 ruminant | |
Dorcatherium sp. Kaup 1839 chevrotain
Dorcatherium pigotti Whitworth 1958 chevrotain
"Dorcatherium parvum" = Afrotragulus parvus Whitworth 1958 chevrotain | |
Canthumeryx sirtensis Hamilton 1973 giraffe | |
Afrosmilus africanus Andrews 1914 false sabre-tooth | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
Reptilia | |
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