Also known as ETE Locality 367, Omo - L.2,
Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 4.2° N, 36.0° E (Wright 2013)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: B Member (Shungura Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Tuff B-10-1 (2.95+-.03ma) radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 404, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Primary reference: C. S. Feibel, F.H. Brown, and I. McDougall. 1989. Stratigraphic Context of Fossil hominids from the Omo Group Deposits: Northern Turkana Basin, Kenya and Ethiopia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78:595-622 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21549: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997
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Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: brumpti
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Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus, Kolpochoerus afarensis
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog | |
Tragelaphus gaudryi Thomas 1884 antelope
Syncerus cf. acoelotus Gentry 1985 African buffalo
Kobus oricornis antelope
Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck | |
Australopithecus sp. Dart 1925 australopithecine ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: (non-robust)
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