Omo - L.10 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 375, Omo - L.10, P.419,

Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.7° N, 35.9° E)

• basin-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: sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: sed sequence=levee to floodplain
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: med sand, coarser at base with scattered bones (member description)

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, 81, ; 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 21557: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 03.07.1997

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sitifense
Hipparion sitifense Pomel 1897 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Metridiochoerus jacksoni, Kolpochoerus limnetes
Metridiochoerus jacksoni pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
Kolpochoerus limnetes Hopwood 1926 pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: sensu C+W
 Primates - Hominidae
"Australopithecus cf. boisei" = Paranthropus boisei
"Australopithecus cf. boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine