Omo - F.257: Gelasian, Ethiopia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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cf. Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Kolpochoerus limnetes
(Hopwood 1926)
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Theropithecus brumpti
Arambourg 1947
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Coordinates: | 5.0° North, 36.0° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.7° North, 35.8° 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: | desiccation cracks,grading sandstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to silt, sand=regularly stratified or cross-bedded, silt is mottled and sometimes clayey (member description) | Tectonic setting: | rift |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: transistional to deltaic | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Collection size: | 7 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 436, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 405, Omo - F.257, | ||
| Database number: | 21587 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer |
| Modifier: | A. Behrensmeyer | ||
| Created: | 1997-07-01 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-10-06 12:35:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-07-01 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4447. | ETE 81 | M. G. Leakey. 1982. Extinct large Colobines from the Plio-Pleistocene of Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 58:153-172 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |