Middle Awash (Bodo/LB) (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 956, Middle Awash - Bodo, LB,

Where: Ethiopia (10.6° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.4° N, 40.2° E)

When: Sagantole Formation (Awash Group), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Fauna comparable to that of lower Chemeron fm., Aterir Beds, Lothagan 3, Ekora, Kanapoi, Mursi fm., and Langebaanweg.

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: lake_margin ETE event: ., ETE env comment: channels occur in upper part of sequence
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: grey to tan silts and clays, some green-grey clays, medium-grained lapilli tuffs, siltstone, and a gastropod limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 566, 565, 564, 563, 562, 561, 560, 558, 557, 556, 555, 554, 553, 552, 551, 550, 549, 548, 547, 546, 545, 491, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: T. D. White. 1986. Cut marks on the Bodo cranium: a case of prehistoric defleshing. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69:503-509 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22135: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parapapio sp.
Parapapio sp. Jones 1937 monkey
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Sivatherium sp.
Sivatherium sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 giraffe
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus cf. pattersoni
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus sp.
Anancus sp. Aymard 1855 gomphothere
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium cf. bozasi
Deinotherium cf. bozasi Arambourg 1934 deinothere
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp., "Elephas cf. recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
"Elephas cf. recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant