ammonites
East Turkana - Area 123 - KBS (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 215, Area 123 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (3.9° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 36.3° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: KBS Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Calabrian (1.8 - 0.8 Ma)

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

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; burrowed sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: At 1.76 Ma, Area 123 was nearshore lake environm.
• ETE rock type adj: bioclastic, ETE lithology comments: brown mudstone

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 126, 125, ; ETE museum list: NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF KENYA

Primary reference: J. M. Harris. 1983. Koobi Fora Research Project The Fossil Ungulates: Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, Suidae. Clarendon Press, Oxford, United Kingdom 2 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/V. Egerton] more details

PaleoDB collection 21402: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 21.05.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton