Middle Awash - Sagantole fm. (Pliocene of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 992, Middle Awash - Sagantole fm.,

Where: Ethiopia (10.5° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 10.2° N, 40.2° E)

When: Sagantole Formation (Awash Group), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: "Fauna sim to lower Chemeron fm, Ateriri beds, Lothagam-3, sugg early Pliocene age for this fm"

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, graded sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluv_lacustr, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: lake-floodplain seds
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: "sands,silts,clays,shale, tuffs, gravel, conglom, ss, ls;UASS basalts intercalate mid of seq"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 85, ; ETE museum list: ENM

Primary reference: J. E. Kalb, C. J. Jolly, A. Mebrate, S. Tebedge, C. Smart, E.B. Oswald, D. Cramer, P. Whitehead, C.B. Wood, G.C. Conroy, T. Adefris, L. Sperling, and B. Kana. 1982. Fossil Mammals and Artifacts from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. Nature 298:25-29 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22171: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
ETE occurrence; species: Rhinocerotidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Nyanzachoerus kanamensis Leakey 1958 pig
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hexaprotodon sp. Falconer and Cautley 1836 pygmy hippo
ETE occurrence; species: large
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821 antelope
ETE occurrence; species: Bovidae
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta adaurora Maglio 1970 African elephant