Also known as ETE Locality 378, Omo - L.161,
Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 36.0° E)
When: D Member (Shungura Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff D (2.52+-.05ma), Min = Tuff E radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: sandstone
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 423, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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 21560: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997
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Taxonomic list
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Loxodonta atlantica Pomel 1879 African elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: angammensis
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Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947 gelada |