ammonites
East Turkana - Area 12 - Upper Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 285, Area 12 - Upper Burgi,

Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.2° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Burgi Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

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

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic infilling
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: upward-coarsening, interbedded bioclastic units

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

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

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 21471: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 01.02.1993