Rodents and Lagomorphs from the Miocene and Pliocene of Lothagam, Northern Kenya

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2.1. Stratigraphy and Depositional History of the Lothagam Sequence 17
5. 2.2. Miocene and Pliocene Paleosols of Lothagam 31
6. 2.3. Numerical Age Control for the Miocene-Pliocene Succession at Lothagam, a Hominoid-bearing Sequence in the Northern Kenya Rift 43
7. 3.1. Fossil Crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura) from Lothagam 67
8. 3.2. Fossil Fish Remains from Mio-Pliocene Deposits at Lothagam, Kenya 75
9. 4.1. Fossil Turtles from Lothagam 115
10. 4.2. Late Miocene–Early Pliocene Crocodilian Fauna of Lothagam, Southwest Turkana Basin, Kenya 137
11. 4.3. Lothagam Birds 161
12. Rodents and Lagomorphs from the Miocene and Pliocene of Lothagam, Northern Kenya 169
13. 6.1. Cercopithecidae from Lothagam 201
14. 6.2. The Lothagam Hominids 249
15. Mio-Pliocene Carnivora from Lothagam, Kenya 261
16. 8.1. Elephantoidea from Lothagam 331
17. 8.2. Deinotheres from the Lothagam Succession 359
18. 8.3. Fossil Aardvarks from the Lothagam Beds 363
19. 9.1. Lothagam Rhinocerotidae 371
20. 9.2. Systematics and Evolutionary Biology of the Late Miocene and Early Pliocene Hipparionine Equids from Lothagam, Kenya 387
21. 10.1. Fossil Hippopotamidae from Lothagam 441
22. 10.2. Lothagam Suidae 485
23. 11.1. Lothagam Giraffids 523
24. 11.2. Bovidae from the Lothagam Succession 531
25. 12.1. Stable Isotope Ecology of Northern Kenya, with Emphasis on the Turkana Basin 583
26. 12.2. Isotope Paleoecology of the Nawata and Nachukui Formations at Lothagam, Turkana Basin, Kenya 605
27. 13. Lothagam: Its Significance and Contributions 625
28. Appendix. Notes on the Reconstructions of Fossil Vertebrates from Lothagam 661
29. Contributors 667
30. Index 669