Maboko Island

Maboko Island is a small island lying in the Winam Gulf of Lake Victoria, in Nyanza Province of western Kenya. It is about 1.8 km long by 1 km wide. It is an important Middle Miocene paleontological site with fossiliferous deposits that were discovered in the 1930s. The age of the deposits is estimated to be 15-16 mya, and they are especially important for the abundance of primate fossils they contain.^[1]

References

^ Feibel, Craig S.; & Brown, Francis H. (1991). "Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya". Journal of Human Evolution. 21 (3): 221–225. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(91)90063-2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

00°09′50″S 34°36′35″E / 0.16389°S 34.60972°E / -0.16389; 34.60972

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[1] Feibel, Craig S.; & Brown, Francis H. (1991). "Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya". Journal of Human Evolution. 21 (3): 221–225. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(91)90063-2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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