Hadar - AL.200: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus afarensis Cooke 1978
1 specimen
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Australopithecus afarensis Johanson et al. 1978
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 11.1° North, 40.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.9° North, 40.4° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary
*International age/stage:Piacenzian (minimum)
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Hadar Member:Sidi Hakoma
Local bed:SH1
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = SHT (correlated to Tulu Bor at E.Turkana, 3.36+-.04ma), Min = TT4 (3.221+-.01ma) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty mudstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: 572 carbonate layers overlie this unit (member description)
Environment:lacustrine indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:3 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 416, 411, 123, 121, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 594, Hadar - AL.200,
Database number:21776
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1995-10-02 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-02 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
4850.ETE 560H. B. S. Cooke. 1978. Pliocene-Pleistocene Suidae from Hadar, Ethiopia. Kirtlandia 29:1-63 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]