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
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•Bobe et al. 2002: member E of the Shungura Fm. dates between ~2.4–2.46Ma
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
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
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: mak - replaced genus name sp. with family name
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Gnathostomata | |
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Mammalia | |
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Xerus sp. Hemprich and Ehrenberg 1833 African ground squirrel | |
Lepus capensis Linnaeus 1758 cape hare | |
Cercopithecidae indet. Gray 1821 monkey ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Cercopithecinae
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947 gelada | |
Hominidae indet., "Australopithecus cf. boisei" = Paranthropus boisei
"Australopithecus cf. boisei" = Paranthropus boisei Leakey 1959 australopithecine | |
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Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mellivorinae
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Deinotheriidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 deinothere ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Deinotheriidae
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