ammonites
East Turkana - Area 3 - KBS (Pliocene to of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 258, Area 3 - KBS,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 35.9° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: KBS Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Pliocene to Pliocene (5.3 - 0.0 Ma)

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

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lacustrine = ephemeral events
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: detrital clastic and bioclastic units, sand

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 234, ; 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 21444: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 08.01.1993