Also known as ETE Locality 324, Area 261 - Lonyumum
Where: Kenya (3.6° N, 36.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.4° N, 35.8° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Lonyumun Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = basal basalt, Min = Moiti Tuff radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 88, ; ETE museum list: KNM
Primary reference: J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton]more details
PaleoDB collection 21510: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.09.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Actinopteri | |
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Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish | |
Hydrocynus sp. Cuvier 1816 | |
Gymnarchus niloticus aba knifefish | |
Osteichthyes | |
Protopterus sp. Agassiz 1843 african lungfish | |
Mammalia | |
Crocidura cf. aithiops white-toothed shrew | |
cf. Erinaceus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hedgehog | |
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Tatera sp. Lataste 1882 large naked-soled gerbil
Mastomys sp. Thomas 1915 mouse | |
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