Also known as ETE Locality 1340, Koro Toro 12, Koro Toro - KT 12,

Where: Chad (16.0° N, 18.9° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° N, 18.7° E)

When: Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Biochron,fauna like Hadar"

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•The associated mammal fauna first gives an estimated age at about 3–3.5 Ma in KT12 (Brunet et al., 1995, 1997). Then, cosmogenic nuclide dating of the argileous pelites that yielded the holotype fossil of Australopithecus bahrel- ghazali provided an age of 3.58 +/- 0.27 Ma in KT12 (Lebatard et al., 2008).

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 482, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: M. Brunet, A. Beauvilain, Y. Coppens, E. Heintz, A. H. E. Moutaye and D. Pilbeam. 1995. The first australopithecine 2500 kilometres west of the Rift Valley (Chad). Nature 378:273-275 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22505: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 12.04.2000, edited by Matthew Clapham

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