Also known as ETE Locality 398, Omo - O.222,
Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 36.1° E)
When: G Member (Shungura Formation), Gelasian (2.6 - 1.8 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff G, Min = Tuff H radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: graded sandstone
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 807, 431, ; ETE museum list: 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 21580: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 31.07.1997
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Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
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"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti Leakey 1943 pig
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig |