Middle Awash - Equus Beds (Pleistocene to of Ethiopia)

Also known as ETE Locality 993, Middle Awash - Equus Beds,

Where: Ethiopia (10.6° N, 40.6° E: paleocoordinates 10.6° N, 40.6° E)

When: Dakanihyalo Member (Wehaietu Formation), Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: composite, ETE age comment: Fauna comparable to Olduvai above Lemuta mbr. Min age = 8955 y BP (C14 date from Gewani) radiometric intage_min

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; tuff

• ETE sed env 1: lacustrine, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: predominantly lacustr
• ETE rock type adj: ., ETE lithology comments: tuffs and clays with interdigitating sands and gravels

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 22172: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 19.04.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki, "Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
"Elephas recki" = Palaeoloxodon recki Dietrich 1915 elephant
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: recki
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus sp.
Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hippo
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Kolpochoerus sp.
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932 pig
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus sp.
Theropithecus sp. Geoffroy 1843 gelada