Middle Awash - Amado Beds (Miocene to of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 949, Middle Awash - Amado Beds,

Where: Ethiopia (11.7° N, 40.2° E: paleocoordinates 11.0° N, 39.2° E)

When: Awash Group, Miocene to Miocene (23.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: Fauna suggests a middle Pliocene age.

Environment/lithology: fluvial

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Two tuffs, clays, and sandstones.

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 566, 564, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: J. E. Kalb. 1993. Refined stratigraphy of the hominid-bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Newsletter of Stratigraphy 29(1):21-62 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22128: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.03.1999, edited by John Damuth

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
ETE occurrence; species: Rodentia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum
Ceratotherium simum Burchell 1821 white rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
"Notochoerus cf. euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus
"Notochoerus cf. euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon sp.
Hexaprotodon sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 pygmy hippo
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Tragelaphus sp., Aepyceros sp., Gazella janenschi
Tragelaphus sp. de Blainville 1816 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Amado type
Aepyceros sp. Sundevall 1847 impala
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Cercopithecus sp.
Cercopithecus sp. Linnaeus 1758 monkey
 Rodentia - Thryonomyidae
Thryonomyidae indet.
Thryonomyidae indet. Pocock 1922 cane rat
ETE occurrence; species: Thryonomyidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephantidae indet.
Elephantidae indet. Gray 1821 elephant
ETE occurrence; species: Elephantinae