Omo - L.67 (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 387, Omo - L.67,

Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 36.1° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

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: wet floodplain; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: each unit fines up to silty sand or silt, sand is medium, G8-ss slabs and Etheria reefs (member description and thick)

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 104, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM

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 21569: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Paracolobus mutiwa
Paracolobus mutiwa Leakey 1982 monkey
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Kobus sigmoidalis
Kobus sigmoidalis Arambourg 1941 antelope
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus oldowayensis