Mesgid Dora, near Mille River (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

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
 Carnivora - Canidae
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