ammonites
East Turkana - Area 117 - Lokochot (Pliocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 299, Area 117 - Lokocho

Where: Kenya (4.1° N, 36.3° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 36.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lokochot Member (Koobi Fora Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Lokochot Tuff, Min = Tulu Bor Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: claystone

• ETE sed env 1: deltaic, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: dist.channel w/prodeltaicand deltaic front sequenc
• ETE rock type adj: dark brown, ETE lithology comments: siltstones, fine micaceous sands

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 234, ; ETE museum list: KNM

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 21485: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 19.05.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton