ammonites
East Turkana - Area 130 - Upper Burgi (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 317, Area 130 - Upper Burgi,

Where: Kenya (4.2° N, 36.4° E: paleocoordinates 4.1° N, 36.2° 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: max = Lokalalei tuff, min = KBS Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: basin margin or "alluvialfan" facies
• ETE rock type adj: lenticular, ETE lithology comments: mudstone, basaltic conglomerate

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

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

Primary reference: M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [K. Behrensmeyer/K. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] more details

PaleoDB collection 21503: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 10.06.1993, edited by Victoria Egerton