Omo - O.222 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

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

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to sandy silt & then silt scattered gravels in basal layer (member description)

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
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
"Notochoerus scotti" = Gerontochoerus scotti Leakey 1943 pig
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
Metridiochoerus jacksoni pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W