Middle Awash (Wee-ee/Kalaloo) (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 952, Middle Awash - Wee-ee,?Kalaloo,

Where: Ethiopia (10.5° N, 40.6° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 40.3° E)

When: Sagantole Formation (Awash Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.85 +/- .08 (CT (Cindery or Lapilli Tuff)). Min age based on faunal correlation. radiometric intage_max,

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; unlithified siltstone

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lake-marginal and alluvial deposition.
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Tuffs, silts, siltstone, sand, clay, and microconglomerate.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 566, 564, 560, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: E. S. Vrba. 1997. New fossils of Alcelaphini and Caprinae (Bovidae: Mammalia) from Awash, Ethiopia, and phylogenetic analysis of Alcelaphini. Palaeontologia Africana 34:127-198 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22131: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet., Damalops sidihakomai
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: aff. Tragelaphus
Damalops sidihakomai Vrba 1997 antelope
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus oswaldi
Theropithecus oswaldi Andrews 1916 gelada