Omo - L.161 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

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

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: sed. sequence=channel-levee-floodplain
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: med., obliquely stratified between parallel bedding, yellow tuff (D-3-2), silt lenses (member description and thickness)

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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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta atlantica
Loxodonta atlantica Pomel 1879 African elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: angammensis
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet.
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE occurrence; species: Hominidae
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus brumpti
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947 gelada