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
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 | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
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Tragelaphus nakuae Arambourg 1941 antelope
Neotragini indet. Sclater and Thomas 1894 antelope ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Neotragini
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cf. Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig | |