Hadar - KH General: Piacenzian, Ethiopia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Spalacidae
Tachyoryctes pliocaenicus
Mammalia - Primates - Cercopithecidae
Parapapio cf. jonesi Broom 1940
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Australopithecus afarensis Johanson et al. 1978
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832
Hipparion afarense Eisenmann 1976
recombined as Eurygnathohippus afarense
Mammalia - Suidae
Notochoerus euilus (Hopwood 1926)
1 specimen
original and current combination Hylochoerus euilus
Kolpochoerus afarensis Cooke 1978
3 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Damalops sp. Pilgrim 1939
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Megantereon sp. Croizet and Jobert 1828
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Herpestidae
Herpestes sp. Illliger 1811
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Deinotheriidae
Deinotherium bozasi Arambourg 1934
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas recki Dietrich 1915
recombined as Palaeoloxodon recki
ETE occurrence; species: shungurensis
unclassified
Madoqua avifluminis (Dietrich 1950)
1 specimen
original and current combination Praemadoqua avifluminis
see common names

Geography
Country:Ethiopia
Coordinates: 11.1° North, 40.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:11.0° North, 40.4° East
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary
*International age/stage:Piacenzian (minimum)
Key time interval:Piacenzian
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Awash Formation:Hadar Member:Kada Hadar
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: Max = KHt (3.175+-.01ma), Min = BKT (2,921+-.004ma), single crystal laser dates radiometric intage_min
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:grading silty claystone
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: silty, ETE lithology comments: cut by sands and conglomerates, thin fining-up and coarsening-up sequences, 2 volcanic events
Environment:fluvial-deltaic indet. Tectonic setting:rift
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluv_deltaic, ETE sed env 2: . ETE event: ., ETE env comment: deltaic conditions to the east
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ)
Collection size:12 specimens
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 447, 415, 414, 413, 412, 411, 409, 123, 121, 104, ; ETE museum list: ENM
Metadata
Also known as:ETE Locality 580, Hadar - KH General,
Database number:21762
Authorizer:A. Behrensmeyer Enterer:A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth
Modifier:A. Behrensmeyer
Created:1995-10-23 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-10-06 12:35:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-23 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

4782.ETE 491D. C. Johanson, M. Splingaer, and N. T. Boaz. 1976. Paleontological excavations in the Shungura Formation, Lower Omo Basin, 1969-1973. In Y. Coppens, F. C. Howell, G. L. Isaac, R. L. Leakey (eds.), Earliest Man and Environments in the East Rudolf Basin [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]