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My ongoing work (since 2008) in the early and middle Miocene Lothidok Formation West of Lake Turkana aims to improve our understanding of the diversity of African hominoids during this period, in which we seem to find different ape genera in the Northern (e.g., Kalodirr) and Southern (e.g., Rusinga) Kenyan sites. This project, the West Turkana Miocene Project, now co-directed with Susanne Cote, is currently funded by grants from the National Science Foundation. These grants support our ongoing work, which aims to reconstruct the faunal, floral, and environmental context of the fossil apes. Or research area, the Lothidok Range, includes sites spanning the early to middle Miocene.
James Rossie
James Rossie
Stony Brook University
Susanne Cote
Susanne Cote
University of Calgary
Our project team now includes an international roster of collaborators including experts in geochronology, paleoecology, paleoclimate, paleopedology, paleobotany, and the paleontology of numerous mammal groups.
Shannon McKeon
Shannon McKeon
PhD candidate, Stony Brook University
Abdallah excavating a hominoid mandible at Moruorot
Plastering the skull of the new carnivoran genus Ekweeconfractus amorui
Sampling paleosols at a hominoid locality at Kalodirr
Our work at Moruorot has resulted in the discovery of a large portion of an individual of the genus Simiolus, which is currently under study.
Our work at Moruorot has resulted in the discovery of a large portion of an individual of the genus Simiolus, which is currently under study.
New Simiolus material.
A skull that we excavated in 2016 has become the type specimen of a new genus of hyaenodontan carnivore, Ekweeconfractus
A skull that we excavated in 2016 has become the type specimen of a new genus of hyaenodontan carnivore, Ekweeconfractus
Skull of Ekweeconfractus amorui in ventral, dorsal, and left lateral views.
2018 Team at Moruorot
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