ammonites
East Turkana - Area 1A - Okote (Pleistocene of Kenya)

Also known as ETE Locality 328, Area 1A - Okote,

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

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Okote tuff, Min = Chari Tuff radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: ephemeral lacustrine
• ETE rock type adj: red, analcimic, ETE lithology comments: white dolomite band, upward-fining cycles

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 88, ; 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 21514: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 22.04.1994, edited by Victoria Egerton