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File name | Contributions in Science |
File Description | The site of Kanapoi lies to the southwest of LakeTurkana in northern Kenya (Fig. 1). Vertebrate fossils were recovered from Kanapoi in the 1960s byHarvard University expeditions and in the 1990s by National Museums of Kenya expeditions. The assemblage of vertebrate fossils from Kanapoi is both prolific and diverse and, because of its depositional context of fluviatile and deltaic sediments that accumulated during a major lacustrine phase, exemplifies a time interval that is otherwise not well represented in the Lake Turkana Basin. Kanapoi has yielded one of the few well-dated early Pliocene assemblages from sub-Saharan Africa but hitherto only the hominins, proboscideans, perissodactyls, and suids recovered from this locality have received more than cursory treatment. The four papers presented in this contribution document the geologic context and diversity of the Kanapoi fossil vertebrate biota. |
Category Name | Science |
Subject Name | Palentology |
Module Name | Geology & Vertebrate |
Micro Category Name | -- |
Level | Masters |
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