Middle Awash - Beearyada Beds (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 958, Middle Awash - Beearyada Beds,

Where: Ethiopia (10.5° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.3° N, 40.2° E)

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

• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max age = 3.89 +/- .02 (AT-1 or VT-1, Ar/Ar and Ca/K dating). Min age = 3.85 +/- .08 (CT (Cindery or Lapilli Tuff)). radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: marginal lacustrine & some fluv_deltaic deposition
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: Tuffs, silts, sands, sandstone, clay, conglomerate, and limestone.

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 494, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: J. E. Kalb and A. Mebrate. 1993. Fossil elephantoids from the hominid-bearing Awash Group, Middle Awash Valley, Afar Depression, Ethiopia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 83(1) [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details

PaleoDB collection 22137: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 15.03.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Anancus sp., Anancus aff. kenyensis
Anancus sp. Aymard 1855 gomphothere
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Sagantole type
Anancus aff. kenyensis MacInnes 1942 gomphothere
ETE occurrence; species: sp. C, mak - species name from unique name
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE occurrence; species: brumpti
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Boselaphini indet.
Boselaphini indet. Knottnerus-Meyer 1997 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Boselaphini
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus cf. jaegeri, "Notochoerus cf. euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus
Nyanzachoerus cf. jaegeri Coppens 1971 pig
"Notochoerus cf. euilus" = Hylochoerus euilus Hopwood 1926 giant forest hog