Omo - L.143: Gelasian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Theropithecus brumpti Arambourg 1947
3 specimens
Mammalia - Suidae
Kolpochoerus sp. van Hoepen and van Hoepen 1932
3 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 5.1° North, 36.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.0° North, 36.0° 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
Geological group:Omo Formation:Shungura Member:C
Local bed:C-9
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = Tuff C (2.85+-.08ma), Min = Tuff D (2.52+-.05ma) radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: unconsolidated, ETE lithology comments: fines up to silt and silty clay, ss slabs, stratified tuffite (member description)
Tectonic setting:rift
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:6 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 415, 414, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM, KNM, MNHN: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, UCBE
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 424, Omo - L.143,
Database number:21606
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:
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]