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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Lothagam: A record of faunal change in the late miocene of east africa
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Volume 16, No. 3, Year 1996
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Description
Lothagam is a richly fossiliferous late Miocene site near the western shore of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya. This site has yielded a diverse fauna documenting a chronological interval poorly known from elsewhere in Africa. Lothagam was first collected by an American research group in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Field studies by the National Museums of Kenya between 1989–1993 have recovered many additional vertebrate fossils, including species previously unknown from Lothagam. This contribution presents a revised, formal stratigraphic framework, initial results of a vertebrate systematic revision, and new interpretations of the paleoenvironmental setting. Analysis of the sedimentary facies and their fossil content indicates the presence of a large, slow moving, well-oxygenated perennial river with abundant backswamps and ponds. Comparisons with faunas from earlier middle to late Miocene Kenyan localities suggest that a major environmental change occurred at the end of the Miocene. © 1996 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Authors & Co-Authors
Leakey, Meave G.
Kenya, Nairobi
National Museums of Kenya
Feibel, Craig S.
United States, New Brunswick
Rutgers University–new Brunswick
Bernor, Raymond Louis
United States, Washington, D.c.
Howard University
Harris, John M.
United States, Los Angeles
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Cerling, Thure E.
United States, Salt Lake City
The University of Utah
Stewart, Kathlyn
Canada, Ottawa
Museé Canadien de la Nature
Storrs, Glenn W.
United States, Cincinnati
Cincinnati Museum of Natural History
Walker, Alan C.
United States, University Park
Pennsylvania State University
Walker, Alan
Sweden, Stockholm
Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet
Werdelin, Lars
Unknown Affiliation
Winkler, Alisa J.
United States, Dallas
Southern Methodist University
Statistics
Citations: 143
Authors: 11
Affiliations: 10
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/02724634.1996.10011339
ISSN:
02724634
e-ISSN:
19372809
Study Locations
Multi-countries
Kenya