Geology and Fauna of a New Pliocene Locality in North-western Kenya (original) (raw)

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Lothagam Hill reveals a succession of fossil bearing sediments that extend knowledge of the East African Pliocene back from the base of the Omo succession, to about 5.5 million years

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1. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University,
   BRYAN PATTERSON & ANNA K. BEHRENSMEYER
2. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University,
   WILLIAM D. SILL

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PATTERSON, B., BEHRENSMEYER, A. & SILL, W. Geology and Fauna of a New Pliocene Locality in North-western Kenya.Nature 226, 918–921 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/226918a0

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• Received: 16 March 1970
• Revised: 09 April 1970
• Issue Date: 06 June 1970
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/226918a0

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