Fort Ternan
| Fort Ternan | |||
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| county | Kisumu County | ||
| height | 1812 m | ||
| Coordinates | 0 ° 12 ′ S , 35 ° 21 ′ E | ||
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Fort Ternan is a city in Kisumu County , Kenya .
history
Fort Ternan was founded in 1895 and named after Brigadier General Trever Ternan . The city is located directly on the Kisumu - Nairobi railway line .
In 1961, near Fort Ternan, Louis Leakey discovered fossils of Kenyapithecus wickeri , a species of human from the Miocene . Leakey also found bones from a species of mouse that was later examined by René Lavocat and named Leakeymys . The site is also important for the small and very rare, also Miocene Feliden Kanuites .
Web links
- Fort Ternan data from Falling Rain Genomics
Individual evidence
- ^ William Robert Ochieng, Robert M. Maxon: An economic history of Kenya ; 1992, ISBN 9966-46-963-X ; here online at books.google, accessed on February 5, 2010.
- ↑ Fossil Rodents from Fort Ternan, Kenya (pdf), article on nature.com, accessed on February 5, 2010.
- ↑ Reihaneh Dehghani and Lars Werdelin: A new small carnivoran from the Middle Miocene of Fort Ternan, Kenya. New Yearbook on Geology and Paleontology, Abhandlungen 248 (2), 2008, pp. 233–244