New oligocene vertebrate localities from northern Kenya (Turkana Basin)

Stéphane Ducrocq, Jean Renaud Boisserie, Jean Jacques Tiercelin, Cyrille Delmer, Géraldine Garcia, Manthi Frederick Kyalo, Meave G. Leakey, Laurent Marivaux, Olga Otero, Stéphane Peigné, Pascal Tassy, Fabrice Lihoreau

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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)293-299
    Number of pages7
    JournalJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology
    Volume30
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 31 Jan 2010

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    We thank the Ministry of Science and Technology of Kenya for permission to conduct our research in the Turkana Basin. We acknowledge Dr. Idle Omar Farah (Director General of NMK), Dr. E. Mbua, M. Muungu, and the staff of the NMK for their assistance with collections and administrative authorizations. We are thankful to Richard E. Leakey without whom the Lokone project would not have been initiated. This work benefited from many helpful discussions with M. Brunet, J.-J. Jaeger, M. Schuster, R. Tabuce, and S. Cote, and we also thank X. Valentin for technical help. Logistical and field assistance were provided by M. Macharwas, F. Emekui, J. Makemkou, A. Lon-dung, and people of Loperot. We are grateful to Georges Diener (Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs), Cyrille Le Deaut (Cooperation Attaché), and Lorys Gratien (French Embassy in Nairobi) for their help and support. Thanks are also due to E. Seiffert and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on the manuscript. The drawings of Figures 1 and 2 were prepared by B. Coléno. This project was funded by the following institutions and research teams: the Fyssen Foundation, Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR-BLAN-05–0235 and ANR-PALASIAFRICA-08-JCJC-0011–01), CNRS Eclipse II, IPHEP UMR 6046 Univ. Poitiers (P. Vignaud), the Research Council of the Univ. Montpellier 2, the program NSF/RHOI (F. C. Howell and T. D. White). C. Delmer’s research is financed by the Fonda-tion des Treilles and the Fondation Bleustein Blanchet. We are indebted to C. Noël for administrative guidance and we thank L. Foley-Ducrocq for helping with the English version.

    FundersFunder number
    CNRS Eclipse II
    Fondation Bleustein Blanchet
    French National Research AgencyANR-PALASIAFRICA-08-JCJC-0011–01, ANR-BLAN-05–0235
    Fondation Fyssen
    Fondation des Treilles

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      • Palaeontology

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