Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of middle Miocene paleosols bearing Kenyapithecus and Victoriapithecus, Nyakach formation, southwestern Kenya

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 263-288

  Wynn, Jonathan G ^a   Retallack, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Kenyapithecus; Middle Miocene; Paleoenvironment; Paleosol; Victoriapithecus

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT;

KAIMOGOOL; KENYA; SONDU;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; GASTROPODA; KENYAPITHECUS; KENYAPITHECUS AFRICANUS; POACEAE; PRIMATES; RIPARIA; VERTEBRATA; VICTORIAPITHECUS; VICTORIAPITHECUS MACINNESI;

EID: 0035074298     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jhev.2000.0453     Document Type: Article

References (115)

1. Some weakly developed soils of the eastern Serengeti Plains, Tanzania
2. Soils of Tanganyika
3. The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy and paleontology
4. Calculation of carbonate and water movement in soil from climatic data
5. Tectonic control on alluvial sedimentation as revealed by an ancient catena in the Cappella formation (Eocene) of northern Spain
6. Middle Miocene hominoid origins
7. The permanent dentition and phylogenetic position of victoriapithecus from Maboko Island, Kenya
8. Phylogenetic, paleodemographic, and taphonomic implications of Victoriapithecus deciduous teeth
9. New primate fossils from the middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya
10. The facial anatomy of Victoriapithecus and its relevance to the ancestral cranial morphology of Old world monkeys and apes
11. Earliest known old world monkey skull
12. Middle Miocene hominoid origins
13. Paleoenvironments in early Miocene Kisingiri volcano Proconsul sites: Evidence from carbon isotopes, paleosols and hydromagmatic deposits
14. Volcanically influenced calcareous paleosols from the Miocene Kiahera formation, Rusinga Island, Kenya
15. Cycles of doming and eruption of the Miocene Kisingiri Volcano, southwest Kenya
16. Geology of the Kericho area
17. New potassium-argon age determinations relevant to the Miocene fossil mammal sequence in east Africa
18. Detailed soil survey of the Kainuk I irrigation scheme, West Pokot District
19. Classification of Paleosols - A comment
20. Authigenic clay minerals in continental evaporitic environments
21. Physical compaction of vertic paleosols: Implications for burial diagenesis and paleoprecipitation estimates
22. Development of grasslands and savannas in East Africa during the Neogene
23. Global change through the Miocene and pliocene
24. Paleoenvironments of root casts from the Koobi Fora formation, Kenya
25. New chronology for the early Miocene mammalian faunas of Kisingiri, Western Kenya
26. Middle Miocene fossil grasses from Fort Ternan, Kenya
27. Excursion guide for the 4th meeting of the East African Subcommittee for soil correlation and land evaluation
28. Field trip guide for the 7th meeting of the East and Southern African Subcommittee for soil correlation and land evaluation
29. Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya
30. Geochronological problems and radioisotopic dating in the Gregory Rift Valley of East Africa
31. Morphological and genetic sequences of carbonate accumulation in desert soils
32. A new species of Micropithecus from the middle Miocene of Kenya
33. A reassessment of the taxonomic and phylogenetic affinities of the fossil catarrhines from Fort Ternan, Kenya
34. Holocene carbonatite-nephelinite tephra deposits of Oldoinyo Lengai, Tanzania
35. Calcretes of Olduvai Gorge and the Ndolanya beds of northern Tanzania
36. The origin of grass-dominated ecoystems
37. Middle Miocene hominoid origins
38. Miocene to early pliocene oxygen and carbon isotope stratigraphy in the south-west Pacific, deep sea drilling project leg 90
39. Environmental determinants in early hominoid evolution: Issues and evidence from the Tugen Hills, Kenya
40. Isotopic evidence for Neogene hominid paleo-environments in the Kenya Rift Valley
41. Rhizoliths in terrestrial carbonates: Classification, recognition, genesis and significance
42. Facts and fallacies concerning Miocene ape habitats
43. Short-term sediment accumulation rates determined from eocene alluvial paleosols
44. Quaternary geology of Mount Kenya
45. Quantitative modeling of soil forming processes in deserts; the CALDEP and CALGYP models
46. 3 (caliche) deposition in southwestern deserts
47. Distribution of calcium carbonate in desert soils: A model
48. Maboko Island and evolutionary history of old world monkeys and apes
49. On the relationships and adaptations of Kenyapithecus, a large-bodied hominoid from the middle Miocene of Eastern Africa
50. Fossil evidence for the origins of terrestriality among old world monkeys and apes
51. Rate and depth of pedogenic carbonate accumulation in soils: Formulation and testing of a compartmental model
52. Numerical modeling, chemical and isotopic studies of carbonate accumulation in soils of arid regions
53. Oligocene to Miocene carbon isotope cycles and abyssal circulation changes
54. Geochemistry and stable isotopes of paleosols
55. Origin and terminology for gilgai in Australia
56. Preliminary mammalian biostratigraphy for western Kenya
57. The tectonics, volcanics and sediments of the Nyanza Rift Valley, Kenya
58. New higher primate fossils from the middle Miocene deposits at Majiwa and Kaloma, western Kenya
59. Sequence and environments of the lower and middle Miocene hominoids of western Kenya
60. A new look at Kenyapithecus based on recent discoveries in western Kenya
61. Sedimentation and fossil preservation in the Nyanza Rift system, Kenya
62. The geochronology of Miocene higher primate faunas of east Africa
63. Fossil land snails of east Africa and their paleoecological significance
64. Biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography of east Africa and the Iberian Peninsula
65. Manganese-containing nodules in two calcareous rice soils of Pakistan
66. Effect of orogeny, plate motion and land-sea distribution of Eurasian climate change over the past 30 million years
67. Saline-alkaline paleolakes of the Tugen Hills-Kerio Valley region, Kenya Rift Valley
68. Middle Miocene fossil plants from Fort Ternan (Kenya) and evolution of African grasslands
69. A pedotype approach to latest cretaceous and earliest tertiary paleosols in eastern Montana
70. The environmental factor approach to the interpretation of paleosols
71. Depth to pedogenic carbonate horizon as a paleoprecipitation indicator? Comment
72. Fossil soils and grasses of a middle Miocene East African grassland
73. Miocene paleosols and habitats of proconsul on Rusinga Island, Kenya
74. Depth to pedogenic carbonate horizon as a paleoprecipitation indicator
75. Geology of the Kisumu district
76. K-Ar ages of Miocene Hominoidea (Kenyapithecus and Samburupithecus) from Samburu Hills, northern Kenya
77. Compaction of paleosols due to burial
78. The fort Ternan hominoid site, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy and paleoecology
79. Detailed soil survey of the seeds testing station, Lanet, Nakuru district
80. Detailed soil survey of the ADC/MoA farm, Garissa district
81. Tooth microwear and premaxillary shape of an archaic antelope
82. Pedohumus: Accumulation and diagenesis during the quaternary
83. Calcrete conglomerate, case-hardened conglomerate and cornstone; comparative account of pedogenic and non-pedogenic carbonates from the continental Siwalik group, Punjab, India
84. Thin sections of paleosols
85. Les Giraffoidea et les Bovidae Miocènes de la Formation Nyakach, Rift Nyanza, Kenya
86. The soils of Rhodesia and their classification
87. Equatorius, a new hominoid genus from the middle Miocene of Kenya
88. Gypsum crusts
89. Paleosols, stable carbon isotopes and paleoenvironmental interpretation of Kanapoi, northern Kenya
90. Miocene paleosols of Lothagam hill
91. Paleoclimatic implications of Vertisols within the Koobi Fora formation, Turkana basin, northern Kenya