Where: Ethiopia (11.5° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 40.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Primary reference: L. Werdelin, M. E. Lewis, and Y. Haile-Selassie. 2014. A critical review of African species of Eucyon (Mammalia; Carnivora; Canidae), with a new species from the Pliocene of the Woranso-Mille Area, Afar Region, Ethiopia. Papers in Palaeontology 1(1):33-40 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230946: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 27.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Eucyon kuta Werdelin et al. 2014 canine MSD-VP-4/4, a partial mandibular corpus with broken c, roots of p1–p2, complete p3–p4, damaged m1
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