Omo - member B2 (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 855, Omo - member B2,

Where: Ethiopia (5.0° N, 36.0° E: paleocoordinates 5.3° N, 36.0° E)

When: B Member (Shungura Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.36 +/- .04 (Tuff B). Min age = 2.95 +/- .03 (Tuff B10). radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology:

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: Levee and channel deposits.
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Stratified tuffaceous silty sand and clays.

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 518, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: Y. Coppens and F. C. Howell. 1985. Les Faunes Plio-Pleistocenes de las Basse Vallee de l'Omo (Ethiopie), Tome 1: Perissodactyls, Artiodactyls (Bovidae). Cahiers de Paleontologie, Editions du CNRS, Paris [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Muhl]more details

PaleoDB collection 22034: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 01.07.1998

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus
"Notochoerus euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis
Rhinocolobus turkanaensis Leakey 1982 monkey
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: brumpti