Omo - L.76: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
4 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
Mammalia - Hippopotamidae
Hippopotamus protoamphibius
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.5° North, 36.0° East (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:basin
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Gelasian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*International age/stage:Gelasian (minimum)
Key time interval: Gelasian
Age range of interval: 2.58 - 1.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:D
Local bed:D4
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff D ( 2.52+-.05ma), Min = Tuff E radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: stratified, transitional to silt and sand
Environment:fluvial indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: 0
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 123, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 357, Omo - L.76,
Database number:21542
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1997-07-28 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1997-07-28 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

4768.ETE 477H. B. Wesselman. 1984. The Omo Micromammals: Systematics and Paleoecology of Early Man Sites from Ethiopia. Contributions to Vertebrate Evolution 17 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]