Omo - L.4 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 370, Omo - L.4,

Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 35.9° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: E Member (Shungura Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff E, Min = Tuff F radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: sandy siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: dry_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: sandy, ETE lithology comments: tuffaceous, cyclic units, conglomeratic (member description and thickness)

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France

Primary reference: H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 21552: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941 antelope
Aepyceros shungurae Gentry 1985 impala
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sp. nov.
Neotragini indet. Sclater and Thomas 1894 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Neotragini
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
cf. Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae