Also known as ETE Locality 373, Omo - L.9, P. 638, P.411,
Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.8° N, 36.0° E)
• basin-level geographic resolution
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: 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Primary reference: M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21555: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bacillariophyceae | |
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Mammalia | |
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
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Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse | |
Kobus sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941 antelope | |
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig | |
Australopithecus sp. Dart 1925 australopithecine ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: (non-robust)
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Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982 monkey
Paracolobus mutiwa Leakey 1982 monkey
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947 gelada |