Omo - L.607: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus oswaldi
(Andrews 1916)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Syncerus cf. acoelotus
Gentry 1985
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus nakuae
Arambourg 1941
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.1° East |
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
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | grading siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: clayey, stratified, sand & silt, silt ss slabs, some clay (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: wet_floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: meandering river | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 4 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 429, 428, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 396, Omo - L.607, P 121, | ||
| Database number: | 21578 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1997-07-28 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-28 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4769. | ETE 478 | J. de Heinzelin. 1983. The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition. Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Annales Series 8, Tervuren, Belgique 85 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer] |