Where: Kenya (4.3° N, 36.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 1.2° S, 36.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Buluk Member (Bakate Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• "K/Ar dates on a basalt just above the fossiliferous sediments show that the fossils are older than 17.2 Myr" (Leakey and Walker 1985); fossils are from about 15 m within the ~50 m thick Buluk Member according to McDougall and Watkins 1985, who report a series of dates, of which one of 17.2 +/- 0.2 Ma for an immediately overlying basalt is favored

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; claystone and coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: includes significant new collections made in 1983 and not previously reported

Primary reference: J. M. Harris and R. Watkins. 1974. New early Miocene vertebrate locality near Lake Rudolf, Kenya. Nature 252:576-577 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70808: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.04.2007, edited by Carlos Jaramillo

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