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Revision as of 04:25, 15 December 2011
The Lothagam is a palaeontological formation located in Kenya. It dates to the Miocene-Pliocene period.
It is located near the southwestern shores of Lake Turkana, 55 kilometres from Kanapoi. It is located between Kerio and Lomunyenkuparet rivers on an uplifted fault block [1]
Brian Patterson from Harvard University was in 1967 the first one to carry out paleontological research in Lothagam [1]
See also
References
- Vickers-Rich, Patricia & Rich, Thomas Hewett (1993); Wildlife of Gondwana. Reed. ISBN 0-7301-0315-3
- ^ a b Turkana Basin Institute: Lothagam: about this site
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