ammonites
East Turkana - Area 105 - KBS (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 209, Area 105 - KBS

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.6° N, 36.3° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: KBS Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: ages based on KBS and Okote Tuffs radiometric intage_min

•KBS Tuff: 1.88 Ma (K/Ar + Ar/Ar); Okote Tuff: 1.64 +-0.3 (member goesfrom base of KBS to base of Okote)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, burrowed, bioturbated, tuffaceous, intraclastic, silty, sandy, calcareous siliciclastic sediments and poorly lithified siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: mudstones, caliche

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: trace, permineralized, original calcite, original sporopollenin, replaced with calcite, replaced with hematite

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 123, 121, 88, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA

Primary reference: J. M. Harris. 1991. Koobi Fora Research Project, Vol III, The Fossil Ungulates: Geology, Fossil Artiodactyls and Paleoenvironments. Oxford University Press, New York [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21396: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 12.02.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton and Philip Mannion