Also known as LOK 13
Where: Kenya (2.2° N, 35.6° E: paleocoordinates 0.2° S, 31.8° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lokone Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• early late Oligocene
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine deltaic; lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Lokone Paleontological Research Project in November–December 2007
Primary reference: S. Ducrocq, J.-R. Boisserie, J.-J. Tiercelin, C. Delmer, G. Garcia, M. F. Kyalo, M. G. Leakey, L. Marivaux, O. Otero, S. Peigné, P. Tassy and F. Lihoreau. 2010. New Oligocene vertebrate localities from Northern Kenya (Turkana basin). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(1):293-299 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 174672: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 23.11.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Lokonepithecus manai n. gen. n. sp.1
Lokonepithecus manai n. gen. n. sp.1 Ducrocq et al. 2011 monkey KNM-LH 49872 - holotype (a fragmentary right lower jaw); referred material: KNM-LH 49873 (an isolated right M3)
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Turkanamys hexalophus n. gen. n. sp.3
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Apterodon aff. gaudryi Fischer 1880 creodont | |
Epirigenys lokonensis2 Lihoreau et al. 2015 even-toed ungulate KNM-LH 11633-11647 and 11650 (originally ID-ed as aff. Bothriogenys)
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Palaeomastodontidae indet. Andrews 1906 proboscidean | |
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