| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Authors: | C. C. Black, Krishtalka L. |
| Journal: | Los Angeles County Mus. Contrib. Sci. |
| Pagination: | 1-15 |
| Date Published: | 1986 |
| Keywords: | Chiroptera, East Africa, fossils, Kenya, Mammalia, Nycteridae, palaeontology, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Pteropodidae, Rodentia, Scotophilus, Soricomorpha, Vespertilionidae |
| Abstract: | Fossil small mammals collected from five Plio-Pleistocene localities in the Koobi Fora Formation along the east side of Lake Turkana, Kenya, are described. The assemblage bears close resemblance to those from Olduvai Bed I in Tanzania and Omo Members F and G in Ethiopia. The most common elements of the assemblage are the murids Thallomys quadrilobatus and Praomys (Mastomys) minor. The micromammals from one locality, which dates at approximately 1.6 million years, suggest an arid environment with Acacia scrub and some riverine forest along intermittent stream channels. |