Also known as ETE Locality 436, Omo - L.628, P.800,
Where: Ethiopia (5.2° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 36.2° 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: siltstone
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 414, ; 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 21618: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig | |
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum
"Hipparion libycum" = Eurygnathohippus libycum Pomel 1897 hipparionine horse ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: ethiopicum
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Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros
Diceros bicornis Linnaeus 1758 black rhinoceros | |
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"Australopithecus boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine
Australopithecus sp. Dart 1925 australopithecine ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: (non-robust)
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"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: atavus
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