ammonites
East Turkana - Area 10 - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 279, Area 10 - Okote,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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

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

Environment/lithology: wet floodplain; mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: shallow floodplain lakes
• ETE rock type adj: red, ETE lithology comments: upward-fining cycles, analcimic, tuffaceous siltstones

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 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

PaleoDB collection 21465: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 29.01.1993