Fossiliferous Localities of the Nachola-Samburu Hills Area, Northern Kenya

Abstract

In the four geographic/stratigraphic areas of the Samburu Hills and Nachola, west of Baragoi, Kenya, a significant number of fossiliferous localities was found. Nachola area is dated to the middle Miocene, the Namurungule Formation in Samburu Hill to the upper Miocene, Kongia area to the Mio-Pliocene and Holocene to the are near Suguta valley and in the drainage systems of the Samburu Hills to the Holocene. The site BG X in Nachola yielded a number of fossils provisionally assigned to Kenyapithecus. An important large hominoid specimen occurred in site SH 22 of the Namurungule Formation. Undoubtedly a great many additional sites await discovery.