Omo - L.338y (Pleistocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 445, Omo - L.338y, P.386,

Where: Ethiopia (5.1° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 35.8° E)

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

•Bobe et al. 2002: member E of the Shungura Fm. dates between ~2.4–2.46Ma

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: moving shoreline of shallow river,temp floods
• ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: stratified silty sand, sandy silt,compacted silt with white concretions,coarse sand pockets + bones,reduced clay E-3-3

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 412, 409, 123, ; ETE museum list: ENM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21627: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 28.07.1997, edited by Richard Potts

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
Gnathostomata
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Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Osteichthyes
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Xerus sp. Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833 African ground squirrel
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus capensis Linnaeus 1758 cape hare
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cercopithecinae
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947 gelada
 Primates - Hominidae
Hominidae indet., "Australopithecus cf. boisei" = Paranthropus boisei
Hominidae indet. Gray 1825 ape
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Hominidae
"Australopithecus cf. boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
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
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
 Artiodactyla - Giraffidae
Giraffidae indet. Gray 1821 giraffe
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Giraffidae
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
ETE occurrence; species: Carnivora
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Felidae
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mellivorinae
 Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotheriidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 deinothere
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Deinotheriidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821 elephant
ETE occurrence; species: Elephantidae
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Crocodylia
Aves
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Aves