Woranso- Mille (Central Afar) (Pliocene of Ethiopia)
Where: Afar, Ethiopia (11.5° N, 40.5° E: paleocoordinates 11.3° N, 40.3° E)
When: Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, tuffaceous, sandy, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
• Vertebrae
Primary reference: Y. Haile-Selassie, B. Saylor, A. Deino, M. Alene, and B. Latimer. 2010. An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia. . 141:406-417 [M. Uhen/A. Perry/A. Perry]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231987: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Avelino Perry on 10.10.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Australopithecus afarensis Johanson et al. 1978 australopithecine | |