Omo - L.12: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
3 specimens
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: shungurensis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceros bicornis (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
4 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.8° North, 36.0° East
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:2.58000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:D
Local bed:D-1 to D-3
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff D (2.52+-.05ma, correlated with Lokalalei Tuff at E.Turkana), Min = Tuff E radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: med., stratified, some silty sand, tuff (member description)
Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: channel ETE event: ., ETE env comment: sed seq=channel-levee-floodplain
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:9 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 425, ; ETE museum list: BMNH: British Museum (Natural History), ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 382, Omo - L.12, P.412,
Database number:21564
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1997-07-03 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1997-07-03 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4763.ETE 454G. Eck. 1977. Diversity and frequency distributions of Omo Group Cercopithecidae. Journal of Human Evolution 6:55-63 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer]